McConnell’s focus: finding votes for Senate health care bill

In addition, the proposed changes to Medicaid financing for people who were newly covered under Obamacare and those in the standard Medicaid program are dramatic.

White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said that President Donald Trump “is pleased to see the process moving forward swiftly in Congress, and he looks forward to seeing a finalised bill on his desk”.

“This is a bad bill”, Minnesota Sen.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Tex.) said there are parts of the bill he supports such as the expansion of association health plans and the reform of Medicaid.

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office expects to release its analysis of the Senate plan early next week.

The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, which represents health insurers covering more than 100 million people in the US, said it will continue to push for a replacement for Obamacare’s coverage requirement as well. He predicted that his call for a preservation of Medicaid expansion would lose the support of the more conservative senators from non-expansion states in the GOP Senate conference.

As of now, the four defectors don’t believe the bill will actually lower health care costs, which the GOP promised to its voters if it repeals the Affordable Care Act.

None of the Senate’s 48 Democrats are expected to support the package, meaning the legislation survives only if no more than two Republicans vote no. “While we are still waiting for final numbers, every indication is that the plan unveiled by Senate Republicans will be even more devastating”.

To get a better sense of what that would mean on a state-by-state basis – and who might be hardest-hit by a rollback – we charted out some of the key aspects of Medicaid and the expansion under the ACA. Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, will put the bill up for vote in the Senate next Thursday. The proposal would impose long-term federal spending cuts on the program. Those additional funds would continue through 2020, then gradually fall and disappear entirely in 2024.

“There isn’t anything in this bill that would lower premiums”, he said. The House bill gave states the right to allow insurers to do that, as long as they set up high-risk pools to cover the sickest residents.

Hospital groups came out against the bill on Thursday.

Last month, a version of Trumpcare that would strip health care from 23 million people passed the House. The Senate version offers more financial assistance to some lower-income people to help them defray the rapidly rising cost of private health insurance.

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