President Trump spent part of his Saturday at Trump National Golf Club but had healthcare on his mind.
He said the Senate bill "doesn't even begin" to address the rising cost of health care.
He also signalled that last-minute changes were coming to win enough support for passage. Other Republican lawmakers have also voiced reservations, casting doubt on the outcome.
Already five Republican senators have said they can not vote for their party's plan as it stands now, with four them saying it does not go far enough to curb provisions under the Obama law and one saying the cuts in healthcare payments for the poor go too far.
More Republican senators are indicating they're not happy with the current draft of the proposal and now, President Trump is making a push to get the GOP on board.
Sen. Jeff Flake's home state of Arizona could lose at least $7.1 billion through 2026 under the Senate proposal to roll back former President Barack Obama's health care law.
Sanders added: "There is no way on God's Earth that this bill should be passed this week".
Some Senate Republicans have been frustrated by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's decision to craft the bill largely behind closed doors, and have also expressed concern that one week is hardly enough time to study a 142-page bill - let alone the CBO report. Five senators, including conservatives like Johnson and moderate U.S. Sen. He is seeking to push a final package through the Senate before the July 4 recess.
Some GOP senators are not so sure about that. There's no way we should be voting on this next week. Lance did not vote for the House bill.
Heller said that to win his vote, GOP leaders would have to "protect Medicaid expansion states" from the bill's current cuts.
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The bill would cut and redesign the Medicaid program for low-income and disabled people, and erase taxes on higher earners and the medical industry that helped pay for the roughly 20 million Americans covered by Obama's law.
He said he has made his views clear to the party leadership and the White House. "I don't want that life no more", Sanchez said.
And it would keep more of Obamacare's insurance regulations than the House legislation. Currently, the federal government pays 95 percent of the costs of the expanded enrollment.
The measure calls for reducing money for Medicaid.
"It appears that the proposed bill will dramatically reduce coverage and will negatively impact our future state budgets", he said in an emailed statement.
"I don't think they're that far off". Famous last words, right? "We don't have too much of a choice, because the alternative is the dead carcass of Obamacare".
'And this has nothing to do with votes, forget about the votes, this has to do with picking a plan that everybody is going to like, I'd like to say love, but like. "You got folks with a health coverage card but no care because you can't afford deductibles", Price said. "Their theme is resist". Trump has yet to explicitly say whether he will support the legislation as it is now written.
He said they had "at best, a 50-50 chance".
"I have very serious concerns about the bill", Collins said in an interview with ABC's This Week.
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