Senate Republicans head home still searching for health care deal

And tt would cause the number of Americans lacking medical insurance to rise by 23 million by 2026, which is 1 million less than under previous iterations of the measure, the Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday.

After rejecting Senate changes to a House-passed school finance bill, House members voted 101-45 to instruct their negotiators to honor the spirit of the chamber’s April budget vote against vouchers. Senators from states with large numbers of people in the health insurance program for low-income Americans are concerned about rolling back the Medicaid expansion in the Affordable Care Act.

Republicans senators conceded Thursday that a scathing analysis of the House GOP health care bill had complicated their effort to dismantle President Barack Obama’s health care law. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., said Wednesday that the House was “motivated by politics, not people” when it passed the health care bill. The House approved the bill May 4 by a narrow 217-213 with only GOP votes.

“Taxpayer dollars are nothing but Texan’s dollars and they’re every bit as much of Texan’s dollars with special needs children as they are with children that are neurotypical”, said Rep. Ron Simmons, R – Carrollton. He declined to provide any timetable for producing even a draft bill to show to rank-and-file Republican senators and gauge their support. The House passed a bill that put more dollars into nearly every district, made needed changes to our funding formulas, and kept more local dollars in local schools. He said Texas must address student “privacy, safety and security” but didn’t say how far a bill must go – including whether it must require transgender people to use bathrooms that correspond with the sex on their birth certificate.

After the vote to send the bills to the full House and Senate, a handful of demonstrators yelled as they exited the capitol.

“Some of the comments that we’ve seen from high-ranking Republicans, making disparaging comments about why they would need to pay for maternity coverage, or mammograms”, Berger explained, “I think it’s fair for people to be anxious”. The previous version of the bill reduced shortfalls by $150 billion. “And exactly what the composition of that (bill) is I’m not going to speculate about because it serves no goal”, McConnell said.

The House bill would relax numerous Obama statute’s consumer protections, kill its mandate that people buy coverage, trim federal subsidies for insurance purchasers and cut the Medicaid program for lower-income and disabled people. Members voting against the bill were Democrats John Alcala and Vic Miller and Republican Ken Corbet.

“Here’s the reality: We’ve got eleven weeks between now and the end of September”, said McCain. “Those changes would result in significantly lower premiums for those with low expected healthcare costs”, CBO analysts wrote, meaning that most of the savings would go to young people and those in really good health.

Rep. Melissa Rooker, a Fairway Republican who is part of the bipartisan 84-39 majority endorsing House Bill 2410, said the 2017 Legislature and Gov. Sam Brownback were obligated to complete work on a new school funding formula by the June 30 deadline set by the Kansas Supreme Court.