Each state has expanded Medicaid and has a GOP senator.
We have a few perspectives on this bill today, starting with Steve Jennings.
Passage would move President Donald Trump and the GOP closer to one of their marquee pledges - erasing Obama's 2010 statute.
The Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017, which was released by Republicans in the U.S. Senate on Thursday, would significantly cut federal funding for the low-income Medicaid program.
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The Medicaid portion of the bill is also drawing opposition from the insurance industry, which has a growing stake in Medicaid as more states seek to privatize parts of their programs. But some employers had hoped the Senate would have made changes when it came to drugs that treat chronic diseases. But he said it was time to act. Dean Heller of Nevada, have said they oppose the bill in its current form.
The 142-page Senate health care bill revealed Thursday was written in secret by 13 white men with little or no expertise on health care issues and no advice from doctors, hospitals or health economists, let alone from the public. However, these four conservatives expressed their willingness to support changes with Paul explicitly stating he was "open to negotiations". Rand Paul of Kentucky, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Ted Cruz of Texas and Mike Lee of Utah announced they could not support the bill as-is.
In an interview with Fox News Channel, Trump was asked about the four conservatives opposing the bill.
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"This bill that's now in front of the United States Senate is not the answer", Heller, a moderate who is up for re-election in 2018, said at a news conference in Las Vegas. Elaine Rodriguez spoke for many parents saying her disabled daughter, Leandra, depends on Medicaid for medicine and oxygen. Those include continued payments of cost-sharing subsidies to insurers, a repeal of the tax on health insurers, and a $50 billion stability fund created by the law.
Obama held nothing back as he weighed in on Facebook.
Mr McConnell said Democrats chose not to help frame the bill.
In a tweet last week after Georgia's special House election, Trump also criticized House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer. The lobbying group is waiting to see the analysis of the bill's impact on spending and insurance coverage from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, expected next week. The enhanced federal financing that pays for the expansion would disappear entirely in 2024.
The measure largely uses people's incomes as the yardstick for helping those without workplace coverage to buy private insurance.
In recent weeks, some Republican senators have said they feel uncomfortable with Medicaid cuts being proposed. You may not agree with me, but we can probably agree that what is happening now is embarrassing, shameful and will do harm to us.
He said the bill would also jeopardize addiction treatment programs for people with opioid addictions.
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