"Medicaid's not actually being cut from our perspective", Republican Sen.
Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV) announced Friday that he is opposed to the Obamacare repeal legislation unveiled by Senate GOP leadership this week in its current form and that he won't vote to advance if it is brought up for a procedural vote early next week. "I will be voting no".
Mr McConnell said a fresh CBO score was expected next week, and there will be "robust debate" on the floor.
As it stands, the Senate draft of the AHCA will make drastic cuts to Medicaid - even bigger than the cuts in the original House bill, which amounted to over $800 billion - screwing over mostly poor and elderly people.
America is better than that; we can take care of vulnerable Americans and still have a growing economy for the middle class and keep our country safe.
Heller spoke at a news conference in Las Vegas with Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval, a Republican who has also assailed the House and Senate health care bills for cutting Medicaid.
The Nevada senator joins four other Republicans in expressing opposition to the draft bill as it is now written.
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Democrats were hoping to scare off as many Republican votes as possible by planning efforts around the country to criticize the measure. "And now the Senate doubling down on that I think means, it's extra mean".
About 20 percent of all Americans and 40 percent of America's kids get their health care through the federal government's Medicaid program.
"No argument against Trumpcare is more eloquent than the grave consequences it means in people's lives", she wrote colleagues. The plan would repeal Obamacare taxes, restructure subsidies to insurance customers that are based on their incomes and phase out Medicaid's expansion program. The subsidies help reduce deductibles and copayments for people with modest incomes.
He said that if Republicans come up with a plan that is "demonstrably better than the improvements we made to our health care system, that covers as many people at less cost, I would gladly and publicly support it". Lefties need to generate some new opposition to the bill that wavering senators are actually afraid of. "We'll have to see".
Sen. Susan Collins of ME reiterated her opposition to language blocking federal money for Planned Parenthood, which many Republicans oppose because it provides abortions. "Johnson also said he is" not necessarily on board with all of the tax cuts" proposed in the bill either. He celebrated the bill's narrow passage last month in a Rose Garden event with House Republican leaders. The annual growth rate of state Medicaid funds would grow at the pace of the consumer price index for all goods, a slower rate than in the House measure, which sets it at the consumer price index for medical services.
Republican Senator Rob Portman says he looks forward to reviewing the Congressional Budget Office's fiscal analysis of the GOP proposal.
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