Heller, like four other GOP senators who announced their opposition to the Obamacare repeal bill that was unveiled Thursday, left the door open to negotiations. Several other Republicans, including moderate Susan Collins of ME, are still undecided about the legislation. "Still, I hope that our senators, many of whom I know well, step back and measure what's really at stake, and consider that the rationale for action, on healthcare or any other issue, must be something more than simply undoing something that Democrats". For states that opted into the expansion, people whose household incomes were up to 138% of the federal poverty level could qualify for coverage.
"The Senate bill ... is not a health care bill", Obama wrote. Those include continued payments of cost-sharing subsidies to insurers, a repeal of the tax on health insurers, and a $50 billion stability fund created by the law. Critics of the bill say those increases will not keep up with rising health care costs. Sen.
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"It's going to be a good bill", Mr Trump said in a separate Fox News interview to air on Sunday. They also both end the Medicaid expansion and cut funding to the program. "We'll have to see".
"This bill that's now in front of the United States Senate is not the answer", Mr Heller, a moderate who is up for re-election in 2018, said at a news conference in Las Vegas.
Maine Sen. Susan Collins and some others are anxious about the bill rolling back Obamacare's expansion of Medicare and putting limits on federal funding of the program.
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The measure largely uses people's incomes as the yardstick for helping those without workplace coverage to buy private insurance.
On Thursday, four of the Senate's most conservative members said the new plan failed to rein in the federal government's role.
"Because there are differences between the Senate and House bills, the House will either have to accept the Senate version or a conference committee will have to be formed in order to resolve the disagreements", explained Wendy Parmet, Matthews Distinguished University Professor of Law and director of the Center for Health Policy and Law at Northeastern.
Toomey, who helped craft the proposal, is among a handful of Republican lawmakers who support it, according to a roundup by The Washington Post. Not only would millions lose their health care coverage, but a million would lose their jobs and hundreds of small hospitals and nursing homes could disappear.
First up, the Congressional Budget Office's estimate of the plan's costs and the effects on insurance coverage is due early in the week, perhaps Monday, June 26.
There are some differences between the House bill and the Senate bill, but overall, many people are concerned if the Affordable Care Act is repealed, because the replacement could leave millions of Americans without coverage.
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