Sen John Cornyn ‘closing the door’ on bill vote delay

He is one of four GOP senators to say they are opposed it but are open to negotiations, which could put the measure in immediate jeopardy. But some lawmakers have doubts.

The announcement comes after some GOP senators expressed opposition to the bill in its current form. “But we won’t get one Democrat vote, not one”. “We have a few people that are – I think you could say modestly – they’re not standing on the rooftops and screaming, they want to get some points, I think they’ll get some points”. He said the vote is “going to be close” and President Donald Trump is “going to be important in the process”.

Overall, enrollees in the individual market would have to pay a lot more for health care services, particularly in states that seek waivers from Obamacare’s insurance regulations. Sasse did offer his preliminary opinion of the legislation, calling it simply a “Medicaid reform package”.

“It is critical that any changes to Medicaid and the private health insurance market reflect states’ experience as major health care purchasers, regulators, and administrators who will be responsible for carrying out new reforms”, NGA Chair Terry McAuliffe (D), of Virginia, and Vice Chair Charlie Baker (R), of MA, wrote.

He told Sciutto he wants to understand why the coverage numbers haven’t “moved that much” from the House bill, adding, “I can’t comment on something before I understand it”.

The letter says the Republican plan is likely to lead to higher costs and greater difficulty in affording care for low- and middle-income patients.

Those two – plus fellow conservatives Mike Lee of Utah and Ted Cruz of Texas – have said the current measure doesn’t do enough to erase Obama’s law and reduce premiums. A recent Quinnipiac poll pegged popular support for the House bill at just 17 percent, an nearly unheard-of figure.

He said, “Republican senators are working very hard to get there, with no help from the Democrats”.

Then he criticizes two prominent Democratic senators. “This is big stuff, and so making sure that we get it right is something that I have said is an imperative”.

A busy week is to be expected on Capitol Hill, where Senate could vote on the GOP proposed health care bill, that would repeal parts of the Affordable Care Act.

The 142-page proposal, drafted mainly by the Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, was unveiled on Thursday.

That’s not sitting well with GOP Sen. Moderate Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., has also said he’s against the proposal, and several others from both wings of the party have expressed qualms.

“I would like to delay”, said Sen.

Johnson’s remarks came in a nationally televised interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

The President also confirmed earlier reports saying he called the House version of the plan “mean”. Twenty-three million people would lose insurance under the House version of the legislation, the CBO said last month.

Senate Republicans on Monday released a revised version of the bill to include a provision that would encourage people to buy insurance: a six-month “lock out” period where people who don’t have insurance have to wait six months before their policy takes effect. While the Republicans have swept these special elections, they still have to be concerned about what the public will think of this plan in 2018, Mahaffee said. It’s considerably more generous than the House. Defections from just three of the Senate’s 52 Republicans would doom the legislation.

Senator Susan Collins of ME, a moderate Republican who has not taken a formal stance on the bill, expressed her concern that cuts to Medicaid would affect it deeply.

Read the Congressional Budget Office cost estimate here.