Senate Dems ask GOP to drop plan to repeal Obamacare

John Thune, a member of leadership and a member of the health care working group, introduced a proposal along those lines targeted to boost the size of tax credits for lower income people.

“Health care is a complicated and very emotional personal issue”.

“I think we want to let them do their work, let them work this out”.

Republican Sen. Susan Collins of ME is expressing concerns about the bill passed by the House to replace the nation’s health care law and says she expects the Senate to start over “from scratch”.

Expect moderate Republicans to take a serious look at how to make sure that people with pre-existing conditions have additional safeguards as they craft their own bill.

“It is a clear and telling demonstration of how the GOP is pushing the agenda of the rich and the powerful while working Americans are forced to pay a horrific price”, Bergstein said in a release following the House vote on the GOP health care bill last week.

Democrats aren’t happy about the House Republican health care bill, but they are upbeat about the prospect of the measure serving as a millstone around GOP necks. If they do, they’re offering to help them “improve the health care system for all Americans”.

That is significantly true from senators from states, unlike Tennessee, that really care about their citizens and accepted the Medicaid expansion offered by Obamacare.

The House bill would end extra federal payments in 2020 that Obama’s law provides to states that have expanded their Medicaid programs to cover more lower-income people.

DENVER | Colorado Republicans are giving up their attack on the state’s health insurance exchange.

They worry that the state could lose events like the NCAA Final Four championship scheduled for San Antonio in 2018 if such a bill passes.

Robert Morris, a pastor at a Dallas-area megachurch said Abbott contacted him and nine other churches to encourage them to tell their congregants to support the legislation. “It would require dramatic changes that would be incredibly significant to those hospitals, because of the higher percentage of Medicaid there, and they’re reliant on that revenue”.

It’s not just Democratic governors sounding the alarm. Rob Portman, R-Ohio.

President and CEO Marilyn Tavenner of America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) stressed the need for “certainty now” on federal cost-sharing reduction (CSR) funds. That’s roughly 712,000 people. She said to replicate Maine’s program nationally would cost $15 billion yearly, “which I do not see in the House bill”. She said she’s working with Sen. The goal of these provisions isn’t to punish people who are sick, but to create an incentive for people to buy insurance while they are healthy.

“The most vulnerable are the small, rural hospitals across the state”, said Paul Chodkowski, CEO of Centura Health’s St. Anthony Summit Medical Center in Frisco.

Both initiatives have a long way to go before reaching Trump’s desk. “I said, ‘Has to be'”. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican, said he would consider allowing the higher charges for pre-existing conditions.

Don’t bet on Obamacare being repealed and replaced this summer, or even this fall.