Bob Corker, R-Tenn., said Thursday morning.
In order for the bill to pass, McConnell needs 50 yes votes from Republicans and a vote from Vice President Mike Pence as a tie breaker.
Four Republican senators announced later in the afternoon that they are not ready to vote for the GOP health care bill, putting the measure in jeopardy.
"There is no doubt that the Affordable Care Act needs to be improved, but Trumpcare would make things worse for most Americans - whether they now get their insurance through their employer, buy it privately, buy it through the exchange or have Medicaid", Hassan said in a statement.
Just hours after Majority Leader Mitch McConnell unveiled the draft text, which could see a vote by the end of next week, a group of four Republican senators published a statement blasting the legislation as not conservative enough.
"Republicans believe we have a responsibility to act - and we are", Mr McConnell said after presenting the Better Care Reconciliation Act Of 2017 to the upper chamber on Thursday. Starting in 2020, the Senate version would begin shifting increasing amounts of tax credits away from higher earners, making more funds available to lower-income recipients, some officials said.
Perhaps the most sweeping change, however, is that the Senate plan follows the House lead in completely changing how the government pays for health care for the poor and disabled, and goes even further.
Susan Collins of ME said it was "too soon" to decide on whether she would vote for the bill.
"I didn't run on ObamaCare lite", Paul said.
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McMonagle's tone became tinged with anger as he stressed Constand's misstatements to police about the day of the assault. Again, Steele read from Cosby's deposition. "Ladies and gentlemen, he has told you what he has done", he said.
Annie Clark, a spokeswoman for Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said the centrist has some misgivings about the bills as well.
She says she is committed to ensuring that all Alaskans have access to affordable, quality health care and will review the bill through that lens.
In other words, with seven days until a scheduled floor vote, Mitch McConnell will have to thread a needle if he intends to gut the nation's health care system.
The GOP holds 52 seats in the Senate, so Democrats can sink the bill by voting against it with at least three Republicans.
The CBO analysis will shed light on how much money the bill would cost and how many people would be covered. "Let's be very clear".
But Democrats immediately panned the Senate GOP plan as a tax cut for the wealthy. Democratic senators have called the legislation a "scheme" to sell out the middle class and an "evil, intellectually bankrupt bill" that would "ruin millions of lives".
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said the House bill would cause 23 million people to lose coverage by 2026. "The way this bill cuts health care is heartless".
The Senate bill, negotiated in secret, is an effort to dismantle President Barack Obama's health care law. It hands enormous tax cuts to the rich and to the drug and insurance industries, paid for by cutting health care for everybody else. Discrimination based on pre-existing conditions could become the norm again. Protesters were physically removed by Capitol Police officers.
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