Two GOP senators oppose healthcare bill, killing it for now

“While this exemption was included in the Senate health care bill out of procedural necessity, we must still be diligent in ensuring that Members of Congress are treated just like other Americans under this law”, the Texas Republican said in a statement.

When asked at a Sunday news briefing about Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s decision to delay the health care, White House director of media affairs Helen Aguirre Ferre (ah-GEE’-ray feh-RAY’) replied: “We wish Sen”. They join two other Republican senators, Susan Collins of ME and Rand Paul of Kentucky, in opposition.

Another eight to 10 Republican senators “have serious concerns”, Collins told CNN on Sunday.

“I have never known a man more tenacious and resilient than John McCain”, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Sen.

The Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA) had been the latest Republican attempt to replace the Obama administration’s Affordable Care Act after an earlier GOP effort failed. “Its prediction about the Senate bill is unlikely to fare much better”.

Many Republicans, including President Trump, say giving insurers the leeway to offer less-comprehensive plans will give people greater choice and cheaper options.

Sen. John McCain, 80, is recovering at his Arizona home following surgery on Friday to remove a blood clot above his left eye, according to his office.

The GOP was set to vote on the BCRA this week until McCain’s visit to the doctor.

Behind closed doors, Pence and top Trump health officials who met with governors stuck to the technically true claim that Medicaid spending would continue to increase under the GOP bill.

Cruz would change basic requirements that Obama’s law imposed on individual plans, including standard benefits such as pregnancy, maternity and newborn care; wellness visits and mental health treatment.

A minimum of 50 of 52 senators must vote for the bill for it to pass. A vote was postponed last month also due to limited support.

Responding to the issue, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said in a statement late Saturday that the Senate will defer consideration of the health care bill. Some in the Senate are suggesting that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) should score the bill (or, at the very least, the Cruz Amendment) instead of the non-partisan CBO as it will be a faster process.

The CEOs from America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) and Blue Cross Blue Shield Association released a letter to McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York on Friday, urging them to remove the amendment from the plan, saying it would “undermine protections for those with pre-existing conditions, increase premiums and lead to widespread terminations of coverage for people now enrolled in the individual market”.

The Senate bill can not be fixed before it gets to a vote, Biden said, and “by denying that all Americans have a right to healthcare, it’s fundamentally flawed”.

Cornyn acknowledged that if the Senate is unable to attract enough GOP votes that it will “keep trying” but will eventually have to come up with a different plan.

So with Senate Republicans considering reducing funding for the program in their health care reform bill, she’s anxious.

David Lansky, president and chief executive of the Pacific Business Group on Health, a nonprofit organization whose members include Boeing, Chevron, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, Intel, Walmart and the Walt Disney Company, told the Washington Post that the Senate proposal to repeal the Affordable Care Act could push the costs of providing health care to uninsured people onto employers and their workers. The senator said the cuts could devastate rural hospitals in his home state of Kansas.

It’s expected that by keeping some of the taxes for the wealthy, leadership may have more money to dole out in upcoming days as they try to make a deal. He previously had three other malignant melanomas removed, on his left shoulder, left arm and left nasal wall (removed in 1993, 2000 and 2002 respectively).