Montana lawmakers to form panel to look at Obamacare repeal

A group of nine moderate and conservative House Republicans voted against the bill with concerns that Republicans would end up repealing the law without clearly laying out and presenting their replacement.

Friday’s House vote follows Senate passage of the resolution early Thursday morning after a late-night voting session that ended with no changes to the measure.

The measure received no support from House Democrats. Democrats criticized the vote and accused the GOP of playing politics.

Republicans now have unified control of Congress, which means they can finally accomplish one of their longstanding policy goals: taking health insurance away from as many as 20 million Americans. The Senate voted 51-49 on Thursday in favour of the resolution.

McConnell (R-Ky.) has repeatedly sidestepped being tied down on the details of repealing and replacing ObamaCare and didn’t take a position on the GOP amendment earlier this week. Trump takes the presidential oath next Friday.

Democrats will also make the argument that that Republicans can not realistically “repeal” parts of the law without excluding popular provisions like protections for people with pre-existing conditions.

Miller, who was asked to provide Republican lawmakers with a formal recommendation for health care reform, said in a letter, “The best change you could make for this market is to stop the changes, and provide reassurance to the industry and to states that they can move forward understanding the rules of the market”. And we have to step in before things get even worse.

“If we rip up this law, all that goes by the wayside”, he said, framing the law as a net positive for the economy.

Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi rebutted Republicans’ claims that the law was a failure. I’m speaking about the GOP’s plan to repeal Obamacare, which is already in motion but still full of open questions. U.S. Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, a Democrat, introduced an amendment in favor of perhaps the most popular aspect of Obamacare, which guaranteed coverage for people with pre-existing conditions. “It’s a ideal storm to make America sick again – and absolutely the wrong direction for families and for our economy”.

Harvard University economist David Cutler warned that there could be trouble in USA insurance markets if lawmakers do repeal the law but a replacement is slow in coming.

“When you put pen to paper, all hell is going to break lose on your side”, Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., said during floor debate this week on the budget resolution, “because you have to move beyond the rhetoric to figuring out how you’re going to pay to keep our kids on our health care plan, figuring out how to have to pay if we’re going to let folks with pre-existing conditions have health care”. Republicans have been divided for years over how to replace the statute, and the process of crafting replacement legislation they can unify behind is likely to take months or longer.

After that, Republicans in both chambers will introduce new bills to replace the very provisions their preceding actions have removed – albeit with replacements deemed more in line with the party’s political agenda.

The nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimated repealing Obama’s signature health insurance law entirely would cost roughly $350 billion over 10 years.

In a call with reporters, Cornyn said, “Young people shouldn’t have to buy insurance they can’t afford, to subsidize insurance for somebody else”.