But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., indicated he was open to discussion and seemed determined to muscle the bill through his chamber next week. The long-awaited plan marks a big step towards achieving one of the Republican party's major goals.
The Senate bill would lock in Florida's already low Medicaid funding for the next decade or more, making it hard to keep covering eligible Floridians and leaving little money for public health threats such as Zika, warns Joan Alker, executive director of the Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University.
"We anticipate it will be hundreds of thousands of Oregonians that will be stripped of health care under this proposal in order to get a tax break for wealthy Americans", said Oregon Gov. Kate Brown, a Democrat.
The Senate bill also calls for a tighter cap on federal spending in Medicaid overall than the House bill did.
"We're going to pay for it one way or another; there are no free lunches", she said in an interview with The Associated Press. Instead, it entices people to voluntarily buy a policy by offering them tax credits based on age and income to help pay premiums.
"Preliminarily, it appears that the proposed bill will dramatically reduce coverage and will negatively impact our future state budgets, which causes me great concern", Sandoval said in an emailed statement.
The bill puts a one-time, $2 billion shot into federal efforts to combat the nationwide opioid crisis, an amount some Republican senators from hard-hit states said is far less than they'd hoped. "That in turn will make the risk pool much healthier, which will also lower premiums".
"If the bill is good for Nevada, I'll vote for it and if it's not - I won't", Heller wrote in a statement.
Spain prosecutor says not opposed to lifting prison sentence for Messi
Messi's case was one of the first high-profile investigations by Spanish authorities into top football players' tax affairs. The maximum fine would be €255,000, on top of a almost €2m fine paid by the 29-year-old as part of last year's sentence.
Toomey, who sat on the working group that planned the bill, said he would "thoroughly examine" it on Thursday.
The plan keeps some popular parts of Obamacare.
But it then allows states to opt out of that requirement.
Some Republican senators, as well as all the Senate's Democrats, have complained about Mr McConnell's proposal, the secrecy with which he drafted it and the speed with which he would like to move it to passage.
Those waivers would allow state to drop benefits required by Obamacare like maternity coverage, mental health care and prescription drug coverage.
Despite opposition to Medicaid expansion by Gov. Rick Scott and Florida's Republican-led legislature, the Sunshine State has led the country in enrollment on the Affordable Care Act exchange, with almost 1.7 million consumers. Governors in states that expanded Medicaid are wary of a bill reveale. They also want to start to change the way the federal government calculates payments to the states starting in 2025, which will reduce the federal government's contribution to the states.
Opinions on the GOP plan fell predictably along largely partisan lines, but the far-reaching bill - initially billed as less intense than its House equivalent - has raised concerns even among some Senate Republicans.
Four conservative Republican senators quickly announced initial opposition to the bill and others were evasive, raising the specter of a jarring rejection by the Republican-controlled body. Senate leaders are aiming for a vote before July 4.
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