While neither of Louisiana's Republican U.S. senators has committed to back the Senate GOP health plan, advocacy groups seeking to keep the current federal law intact have their focus squarely on only one of them: physician Bill Cassidy.
Health insurers criticized the steep cuts to Medicaid proposed in the Senate bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act as "too much, too fast".
"That could cause states to shrink eligibility, to cut people who really need health care from the program", said Collins.
Sens. Dean Heller of Nevada, facing a competitive 2018 re-election battle, Rob Portman of OH and Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia expressed concerns about the bill's cuts to Medicaid and drug addiction efforts.
However, Senate Republicans' bill would make deep cuts to Medicaid, rolling back Obamacare's Medicaid expansion and transforming federal Medicaid payments to the states into per capita reimbursements, the rates of rich would get smaller and smaller through 2025, or block grants.
Sandoval said the Senate bill "is something that needs to change".
"No amount of eleventh hour reality-denying or buck-passing by Democrats is going to change the fact that more Americans are going to get hurt unless we do something", he said.
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The cutbacks the Senate bill, which would end Medicaid expansion, would cost the state $120 million a year by 2022, with the cost rising sharply after that the governor said.
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"Well they are also four good guys and they are four friends of mine and I think that they'll probably get there, we'll have to see", he said on "Fox & Friends".
"This is a bad bill", Minnesota Sen.
"In this form, I will not support it", he told a news conference in Las Vegas on Friday.
"It was just released yesterday".
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.
"It is precisely the detrimental impact on the poor and vulnerable that makes the Senate draft unacceptable as written", Dewane said, including the omission of healthcare for immigrants and their families and insufficient protection of conscience rights.
Bishop Dewane praised the language in the legislation which recognizes that "abortion is not health care" by attempting to prohibit the use of taxpayer funds to pay for abortion or plans that cover it.
Shortly after the 142-page bill was distributed, more than a half-dozen GOP lawmakers signaled concerns or initial opposition. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and MoveOn.org were planning weekend rallies in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia. AP reporter Thomas Beaumont contributed from Des Moines, Iowa.
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