Republican Senator Rand Paul (Kentucky) said, "It keeps the preexisting condition, keeps the regulations, and then subsidizes the death spiral".
President Donald Trump, on the other hand, believes that the bill is "going to be very good" with a little negotiation needed to make it better.
Mr Obama said that though repealing and replacing Obamacare has become a core issue for Republicans, "we fought for it because we knew it would save lives, prevent financial misery, and ultimately set this country we love on a better, healthier course".
The bill also repeals the tax mechanism that funded the Affordable Care Act's benefits, resulting in hundreds of billions of dollars in tax cuts for the wealthy and health care industry.
"My point is this bill now in front of the United States Senate is not the answer-it's simply not the answer", Heller said at a press conference in Nevada on Friday.
McConnell wants to push the package through the Senate next week, and will succeed if he can limit defections to two of the chamber's 52 Republicans.
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Paul also said it was not clear whether the four senators would stay united as talks continue.
"We have to send the message to our elected officials and we depend on our elected officials to champion our cause in Washington", said Pamela Clarke, the health center's CEO. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who has been criticized for drafting the bill in secret with just a dozen Republican Senate colleagues, says the proposal - which he calls a discussion draft - will stabilize insurance markets, strengthen Medicaid and cut costs to consumers.
Menendez held a news conference at Newark Community Health Centers where 53 percent of patients are on Medicaid. "But the bill in front of us today I don't think makes those fixes", Heller said.
Early next week, the Congressional Budge Office will submit a report evaluating how many people would lose their insurance due to the bill as well as its impact on the federal budget. He celebrated its narrow passage last month in a Rose Garden event with House Republican leaders.
"I can not support a bill that is going to result in tens of millions of people losing their health insurance, and I can not support a bill that's going to make such deep cuts in Medicaid that it's going to shift billions of dollars of costs to our state governments. and to healthcare providers, such as rural hospitals, which would be faced with a great deal of uncompensated care". And it would end the tax penalties under Obama's law on people who don't buy insurance - the so-called individual mandate - and on larger companies that don't offer coverage to their employees.
The bill would let states get waivers to ignore some coverage requirements under Obama's law, such as specific health services insurers must now cover. "They have lots of work to do".
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