Tom Price promises GOP won't pull 'rug out' on health care

Bill Cassidy, R-La., said Sunday on CBS' "Face the Nation" that while he's undecided on the bill, he's open to a "yes" vote if certain elements that affect his state can be addressed.

On Friday, he said the bill was "cheaper" but declined to commit to voting for or against it.

At least five Republican senators have said they can not support the bill, which would mean failure in the Senate.

Now, facing an enormous challenge in the Senate on health care, Trump and his team are opting for a hands-off approach on legislation to dismantle the "Obamacare" law, instead putting their faith in Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to deliver a legacy-defining victory. "We have a few people that are I think, I could say modestly, they're not standing on the rooftops and screaming".

The GOP senators who joined Johnson in the Thursday statement were Ted Cruz of Texas, Mike Lee of Utah and Rand Paul of Kentucky. "Let's have the integrity to show the American people what it is, show them the truth".

"We have concerns about what the changes in Medicaid may mean to those with disabilities", Moran said in a video posted to YouTube. It's similar to a bill passed by Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives last month. Former President Obama weighed in on BCRA as well, saying that it's "not a health care bill" and criticizing the "fundamental meanness at the core of this legislation".

Now, after days of closed-door meetings where the very sharpest minds in Washington met to hammer out an alternative, we get a legless version of the mean-spirited Obamacare repeal bill the House passed.

A number of Republican senators have already come out against the bill, with the handful of dissenters divided between those who think the bill is still too generous, and those who think it's not generous enough.

Four other Republicans are set to vote no on the bill, but only because they don't think it goes far enough.

McConnell has little margin for error, as he can afford just two defections from his conference with all Democrats expected to oppose the bill.

Though Johnson took a more agnostic approach to his criticism of his own party's bill, Sanders, who caucuses with the Democrats, was far more acerbic in his condemnation of the AHCA. So, for example, I'm for 100 percent repeal, that's what I want.

Republicans, despite what they have told voters over the past seven years, "are focused on trying to minimize taxes, especially on investment income, and keeping federal subsidies for health care to a minimum". He added he's been encouraging leadership and the White House not to "rush" this process.

"Not only Heller, but Sandoval is a great governor", Kasich said.

President Donald Trump seemed to confirm reports that he called the House of Representatives' healthcare bill "mean" during a "Fox & Friends" interview that aired Sunday morning. The state's hospital association is vigorously opposed to the plan, calling the Medicaid cuts "a massive shift of financial risk and burden from the federal government to states, local healthcare providers and Arizona patients and families". But unlike the House version of the legislation, it's not called the American Health Care Act. The hard, hard right, these thousand very wealthy people, have such dominance in the Republican Party, they've had two goals for decades. If so, he might be waiting until the last minute to introduce the continuous-coverage language, so Democrats have less time to raise the issue with the Senate parliamentarian. "I will study the bill to determine whether it fulfills President Trump's campaign promises to lower premiums, maintain coverage and protect those with preexisting conditions without mandates", he said. They were more narrowly split in their affection for Obamacare, saying 41-38 percent that it was a good idea.