White House: Republicans to be rewarded for health care vote

Cassidy said on Fox News Channel's "Sunday Morning Futures" that he hopes a bill could be sent to Trump by the fall.

Because AHCA would both hinder access to health insurance for millions of people as well as drastically impair the effectiveness and affordability of rural healthcare, we are deeply disappointed by today's House vote to approve the bill. This bill looks even worse, given the previous bill didn't include scraping safeguards that protected against insurance companies excluding those with pre-existing conditions. Several Republican senators have been skeptical about the House's American Health Care Act, partly due to a lack of a Congressional Budget Office assessment of its costs and effects, and its rollback of Medicaid expansion, among other issues. Preliminary estimates have said perhaps 24 million people could lose coverage with the GOP's repeal and replace action.

In 2012, researchers analyzed the results of the first midterm election that took place after the Affordable Care Act passed.

Conservative Representative Raul Labrador, of Idaho, drew boos on Friday at a public meeting for his response to a constituent who said the House bill tells people on Medicaid to "accept dying".

Asked if she could support the House version, Collins says: "The House bill is not going to come before us".

Collins, however, said one of the problems with the tax credit in the House bill is that it's not adjusted for variations in income and geographic regions across the U.S. That "really hurts a state like ME, where we have an older population" living in rural areas where health care is more expensive, she said.

"But you can charge people more", Stephanopoulos interjected.

Senators are already talking about preventing some of the House bill's Medicaid cuts. "There are increases in spending, but what we're doing is apportioning it in a way that allows states greater flexibility". Republican-led healthcare reforms will provide people across our country with a patient-centered, affordable healthcare system.

The House bill, passed 217-213, would end the health care law's fines on people who don't buy policies and erase its taxes on health industry businesses and higher-earning people.

Collins cited concerns about potential higher costs to older Americans and those with pre-existing medical conditions. The status quo is also health insurance premiums going up.

Moderate Republicans have already isolated their biggest problems with the bill out of the House, namely that it weakens protections for Americans with pre-existing conditions and reduces funds for the Medicaid program for the poor.

Trump celebrated its passage with House Republicans in the White House Rose Garden on Thursday, an unusual move following passage of a bill by one House of Congress. "I'm really very anxious that in the rush to judgement we create a major health care problem for people".

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman argued this week that the latest legislative strategy being used by President Donald Trump, House Speaker Paul Ryan and other Republicans is to blatantly lie about the bills they are trying to pass.

But Seaford Rep. Peter King, who voted in favor of the bill, says the warnings are a bit off base.

"We think we need to do even more support for people who are older and also more support for people with pre-existing conditions", Mr Ryan acknowledged.