5 reasons to (still) be skeptical about Trumpcare passing the House

But House Republicans are not keen to repeat last month’s debacle, when their leaders acquiesced to Trump’s demand for a floor vote on the bill, only to unceremoniously yank the measure after determining it could not pass.

What we know is that the bulk of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, which opposed the first attempt to reform and replace the Affordable Care Act, is now on board with the revised, slightly more conservative version.

“We are going to go when we have the votes”, Ryan said. “But I think there is a real chance of a vote”.

Overall, the legislation would cut the Medicaid program for the poor, eliminate Obama’s fines for people who don’t buy insurance and provide generally skimpier subsidies. Others were more cautious, and there was little overt indication of new support from party moderates. “And that dog ain’t hunting anymore”.

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi said Trump was making Republicans “walk the plank” on a healthcare bill that was “wildly unpopular”.

If 22 Republicans vote against the bill, it will fail.

House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) told the press that a new bill could come to the floor at some point if sufficient support surfaced.

Implementing our health insurance law in MA, we understood that developing and implementing health policy takes time and serious effort and that adjustments always need to be made over time. Republican President Donald Trump made it a top campaign promise.

“I’m still holding out for Saturday”, Trump’s budget director, Mick Mulvaney, said Thursday morning on CNBC.

“I’m still voting no”.

Republicans opposed to the bill or uncertain about it are leery of changes to Obamacare that would lead to a sharp increase in insurance premiums and a reduction in the number of people with health-care coverage.

Six news organizations, including The Post and Courier, filed an open records lawsuit Thursday against the South Carolina House Republican Caucus after being stonewalled by the lawmakers group.

And the AARP, the powerful senior citizens’ lobby, remained opposed. After a full evaluation, countless meetings and negotiations, input from my constituents, and with the addition of the MacArthur Amendment, I will be supporting the American Health Care Act.

It allows states to apply for a waiver from consumer protections including the age ratio of three to one, coverage for essential health benefits and the ban on health status underwriting.

But, in a letter to Congressional leaders, American College of Physicians President Dr. Jack Ende on Monday said the proposed changes are a throwback to pre-Obamacare days, when people with pre-existing conditions were priced out of the market and insurance products did not cover medically necessary services. “These are people with pre-existing conditions”.

“I can either be an obstructionist or I can try to help make things better”, MacArthur said.

MacArthur (R-N.J.), co-chairman of the Tuesday Group of moderate Republicans, negotiated the amendment’s language with Freedom Caucus chairman Mark Meadows (R-N.C.). “We either win together, or we all lose”.

Even former AHCA opponents who have chose to support the amended bill admit it’s far from the complete repeal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that the GOP promised to deliver – and indeed did deliver, but only when it could be sure the man in the White House would veto it.

“I still think there’s a lot of work to be done” before a vote can be held, said Rep. Steve Stivers, R-Ohio, part of the House GOP leadership.