"We used to complain like hell when the Democrats ran the Affordable Care Act".
U.S. Senate Republicans plan to unveil the text of their draft health-care bill on Thursday as senators struggle over issues such as the future of the Medicaid program for the poor and bringing down insurance costs.
"It's apparently being written by a small handful of staffers for members of the Republican leadership", said conservative Sen. "If it is going to pass, the bill is going to have to make meaningful steps to reduce premiums", he said.
Politico identifieD the 11 senators who might be the most hard to line up behind a Senate bill as Sens.
The House included the waivers in the bill before passing it by a one-vote margin in an attempt to win more support for the bill.
McConnell said there would be ample time to read the bill, but didn't commit to a specific number of days.
More moderate senators like Susan Collins of ME and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska are also seen as potential "no" votes on the other end of the spectrum.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that 23 million fewer Americans will eventually lack coverage due to the bill.
Wisconsin GOP Sen. Ron Johnson hinted at what that would look like at a constituent event last Friday.
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said Tuesday that President Donald Trump wants the Senate GOP's healthcare bill to be compassionate, but he wouldn't say if the president has issues with the current form of the bill.
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Spicer said he did not know whether Trump had seen a draft of the Senate health care bill, and also declined to comment on the timing of a vote.
"We've been working on it for a long time". Booker served as the group's videographer as they set out to illustrate the difficulty of obtaining a copy of the American Health Care Act. It's possible that the draft could undergo changes before the bill goes to the floor.
Politico reported McConnell faces a tough path within his own party to to get the 50 votes he needs to pass the bill.
The Republican effort to secretly craft a health care bill and push it through the Senate is drawing fire from members of both parties. They're all going to oppose it, but they can't ultimately stop it from eventually getting an up-or-down vote.
The White House has been letting McConnell drive the process in the Senate, although Trump, just weeks after celebrating the House passage of its Obamacare repeal bill in an impromptu Rose Garden ceremony, recently lamented that that very bill was "mean", and that Senate Republicans should put forward a more "generous" proposal.
Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch said Republicans are close, but not quite ready, to send a bill to the CBO.
Outside Democratic activists associated with Indivisible are calling for Democrats to use every procedural tactic available to slow down debate.
It's unclear how Democrats will respond next week, but Schumer said Republicans should expect a fight.
Thus far, Republicans have not yet given one public hearing on the health care bill.
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