They fight each other.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), speaking on ABC's "This Week", said he believed the bill has a "50-50" chance of passing.
A cynic might say that the BCRA is less a Republican health care bill than a caricature of a Republican health care bill. "I frankly would like more days to consider this".
And Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, appearing on ABC's This Week, said: "It's hard for me to see the bill passing this week, but that's up to the majority leader".
Senate Republican leaders scrambled Sunday to rally support for their health care bill, even as opposition continued to build outside Congress and two Republican senators questioned whether the bill would be approved this week.
Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana echoed Toomey's comments, saying people will move off the Medicaid expansion into the private health insurance market. Governors and state legislators, facing huge reductions in federal Medicaid funding, may soon have to decide whether to reduce services, limit who can enroll in the healthcare safety net or make cuts to other state programs, such as education or transportation....Those coverage losses, in turn, will put new pressures on doctors, clinics and hospitals as they face growing numbers of patients with no insurance who are unable to pay their medical bills.
That could add Heller's name to Trump's call list. The CBO score "will be so important, " she said.
Healthcare stocks closed down 0.1 % on Friday, clawing back some losses after the sector dropped sharply late in the session on Heller's announcement.
Once again, Donald Trump has thrown his defenders under the bus.
Senate GOP leaders unveiled the 142-page proposed ACA replacement Thursday.
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Rand Paul, who has rejected the plan along with fellow Republican Senators Ted Cruz, Mike Lee and Ron Johnson, said fundamental problems remained that would leave taxpayers subsidizing health insurance companies.
Trump Saturday on "Fox and Friends" lamented the complicated nature of health care reform. At the same time, Democrats say, he has striking liabilities. Interestingly, the people who have been most hurt by the Affordable Care Act are the people who earn too much to get tax credits but they buy their own insurance. "And we'll see if we can take care of that".
"We don't have the luxury of waiting around", he said. But I think we're going to get there.
For the House of Representatives' version of healthcare, Trump held regular meetings with representatives at the White House. He also bragged that the bill had "really brought the Republican Party together". A Congressional Budget Office analysis of the House measure predicts an additional 23 million people over the next decade would have no health care coverage, and recent polling shows only around 1 in 4 Americans views the House bill favorably.
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Moller said he wouldn't presume how Kennedy might vote, but noted the senator's public statements have been critical of Medicaid spending and supportive of efforts to scale back the program.
Manchin on CBS' "Face the Nation" called for a bipartisan working group to "fix it", saying the House bill was bad and the Senate version is worse.
The Senate version mostly mirrors the House bill but would allow for the continuance of federal subsidies that under the Affordable Care Act are allocated to those who can not afford to pay their monthly health insurance premiums.
"Senator Durbin doesn't want to talk about the fact that in IL they are way down on the number of people even selling insurance and prices are way up", he also said.
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