GOP pushes bill unraveling Obamacare through Senate

The Senate approved the legislation in a near party-line 52-47 vote Thursday, leaving it likely that the GOP-run House will ship the measure to the White House in days.

Republicans lack two-thirds majority needed to override the promised veto. The resulting implementation of Obamacare has resulted in American taxpayers paying more than $116 billion each year, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. They want better care.

The vote comes at a time when some plans sold via PPACA insurance exchanges have been struggling with weak enrollment, higher-than-expected medical costs, and increased premiums.

“I think they know it was a loser”, Pelosi said of proposals to limit Planned Parenthood. “If it were to become law, this bill would reverse the significant gains the [ACA] has brought and decimate women’s access to comprehensive reproductive health care”, stated Debra L. Ness, President of the National Partnership for Women & Families. “It was a awful mistake”, Cornyn said about the way Democrats and the President pushed the bill through.

Democrats will try to extract a political price along the way. Republicans take issue with the law because it forces people to buy private insurance and fines those who don’t. “Another charade may make some Republican senators feel better, but it won’t make law”. The House has passed a similar bill, and differences between the two must be resolved before the legislation can go to the president. Three people were killed in the shooting rampage.

Even then, a bipartisan measure from Sen. Republicans, who have majority control of the House, as well as the Senate, aim to have the bill on the House floor next week. Chuck Schumer of NY. Republicans offered alternatives to each and they were blocked as well.

With just a 54-46 edge, Republicans had previously failed to push such legislation through the Senate. The one Senator to overlook the vote?

He also highlighted cuts to Planned Parenthood.

Kirk and Collins were the only Republicans to vote against the final bill. Ted Cruz of Texas and Mike Lee of Utah, originally said he couldn’t support the House’s version of the reconciliation bill, which left in place the Medicaid expansion and subsidies.

“The pro-life movement, including Operation Rescue, has fought for years to halt public funding to the nation’s largest abortion business, Planned Parenthood”, said Troy Newman, the president of pro-life group Operation Rescue.

The budgetary tool known as reconciliation prevented the possibility of a filibuster and only required 51 votes to pass the upper chamber, but allowed for members of both parties to add an unlimited number of amendments.