The Senate version, as expected, retains the House's Affordable Care Act tax cuts, which by 2025 will save millionaires almost $55,000 each year. "Obamacare isn't working by almost any measure".
Hospitals focused their concerns on proposed cuts to the Medicaid program, which now provides health insurance to some 73 million low-income and disabled Americans.
The report goes on to to explain that Senate leaders are looking to pass the bill next week through what's known as the "budget reconciliation" process in order to get around the Senate's usual 60-vote rule. The Senate Republicans' plan puts a lid on that by rolling back the Obama-era expansion of the program and then granting states a set amount of money for each person enrolled.
The Republican congressman who was formerly president of the Arizona Senate says the American people demanded a full repeal and the proposal released by the U.S. Senate on Thursday doesn't fulfill that promise.
No. The Senate bill would preserve ObamaCare's community-rating price controls.
Predictably, Democrats were firm in their opposition to the GOP bill. Sen.
At least half a dozen Republican senators - conservatives as well as moderates - have complained about the proposal, the secrecy with which Mr McConnell drafted it and the speed with which he would like to whisk it to passage. Like the House version, the Senate's bill would restructure the federal program so funding is capped.
The bill would provide less generous tax credits to help people buy insurance and let states get waivers to ignore some coverage standards that Obamacare requires of insurers.
The bill's changes to Medicaid are concerning to some members of the Senate. Sen.
McConnell must navigate a narrow route in which defections by just three of the 52 Republican senators would doom the legislation.
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At the White House on Thursday, Trump expressed hope for quick action.
Obama was responding to a Republican plan that most analysts believe would dramatically reduce the number of Americans who have health insurance over the next decade, while at the same time driving up costs and lowering the level of coverage for many who continue to purchase policies through the ACA's insurance exchanges.
The bill appears to be a less austere version of the one that passed the House of Representatives last month which, according to a forecast by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO), would leave 23 million fewer people insured than under current law.
Though the Senate bill would not entirely do away with the Affordable Care Act's subsidies meant to help people pay for individual coverage-and, as The Washington Post reported, it "removes language restricting federally subsidized health plans from covering abortions"- the Senate's legislation eliminates federal funding for Planned Parenthood for a year. "What impossible choices will working parents be forced to make if their child's cancer treatment costs them more than their life savings". But that still will cause a "massive shift" of financial risk from the federal government to states, health care providers and patients. In effect, it is Medicaid expansion by another means-and it effectively snubs GOP officials in the 19 states that did the right thing (reduced federal deficits, etc.) by not expanding Medicaid.
House GOP bill: Premium subsidies are keyed to age, not income. Dean Heller, R-Nevada, considered next year's most vulnerable Senate Republican up for re-election.
The bill would end the ACA's penalties for larger employers who don't offer insurance to workers. There are some promising changes to reduce premiums in the individual insurance market, but I continue to have real concerns about the Medicaid policies in this bill, especially those that impact drug treatment at a time when OH is facing an opioid epidemic.
The Senate's draft bill proposes repealing the 3.8 percent net investment income tax on high earners retroactively to the start of 2017. Like the House bill, the Senate plan would repeal or delay those tax boosts.
Rand Paul of Kentucky said he's very concerned that the Senate bill would include more subsidies for insurance than the House version.
"Sen. Collins will carefully review the text of the Senate health care bill this week and into the weekend".
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