As NPR reports, the Senate bill, called the "Better Care Reconciliation Act", would repeal major parts of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. The measure represents his attempt to satisfy GOP moderates and conservatives who've complained about the measure.
Senate Republicans launched their plan for shriveling Barack Obama's health care law Thursday, edging a step closer to their dream of repeal with a bill that would slice and reshape Medicaid for the poor, relax rules on insurers and end tax increases on higher earners that have helped finance expanded coverage for millions.
And she concluded by urging her supporters to call Republicans in the Senate to voice their opposition. It would also factor a person's age into how much money they are eligible to receive from the federal government to pay for health insurance. Still, if the previous estimates from the Congressional Budget Office remain on par, up to 23 million Americans could lose insurance over the next decade.
"I have serious concerns about the bill's impact on the Nevadans who depend on Medicaid", said Nevada Senator Dean Heller to the New York Times Thursday. For example, a 60-year-old who makes $35,000, which is 300 percent of the federal poverty level, would have to pay 16.2 percent of their income in premiums under the Senate bill.
Mr McConnell has only a thin margin of error: The bill would fail if just three of the Senate's 52 GOP senators oppose it. McConnell stitched it together behind closed doors, potentially moving President Donald Trump and the GOP toward achieving perhaps their fondest goal - repealing former President Obama's 2010 statute, his proudest domestic legacy.
"We'll be thoughtful in our analysis of how it may affect Indiana's programs and citizens-as well as the opportunities it may provide for us to better meet the needs of Hoosiers", Holcolmb said in a statement. Many Democrats and Republicans did not know what was in the bill that could overhaul one-sixth of the economy.
"We'll hopefully get something done and it will be something with heart and very meaningful", he said.
While U.S. Sen. John Cornyn took to the floor early Thursday to defend the bill against Democratic criticism, U.S. Sen.
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"If I thought that was a honest offer, I would take it in a minute, a NY minute", Cornyn said.
The proposal would by 2024 phase out funding for states like Kentucky that elected to expand their Medicaid programs under Obamacare.
But it would be more gradual than the House bill, which cuts off the extra funds for new Medicaid beneficiaries in 2020. (But that's already been the case, so why stop now?) He already celebrated the passage of the House bill, so we're pretty sure he'll do exactly what the Republicans want on this one, too.
Critics worry this could would give states the option to not cover substance abuse treatment.
The Senate bill was met nearly immediately with outraged dissent from Democrats, including Warren. Many Republicans have long fought that organization because it provides abortions.
Paul issued a statement Thursday saying he wasn't ready to vote in favor of the new bill because it doesn't fully repeal Obamacare. While it "leaves the fundamental structure of Obamacare's changes to the individual insurance market in place", writes Vox's Andrew Prokop, "that doesn't make the bill a nothingburger. far from it".
Four Republican senators say they can not vote for the party's plan to replace the law commonly known as Obamacare, but not because it's too tough.
A death spiral is a kind of feedback loop where higher premiums cause healthy, paying customers to drop their health plans, which in turn leads to higher premiums, which in turn drives more people out of the insurance market.
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