2 key senators not swayed by new health bill

On Monday night, Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, said that “the effort to repeal and immediately replace the failure of Obamacare will not be successful”.

The main effect of this latest version of Trumpcare, called the “Better Care Reconciliation Act”, is the same as previous attempts: It would result in 23 million people losing their health insurance according to the Congressional Budget Office. Is this the system we want to be in place? “That pool is liable to get increasingly expensive – in fact, very expensive over time”.

Lee has offered no hints as to what his future decision on the legislation will be, but one thing seems nearly certain: The fate of the Better Care Reconciliation Act rests in his hands. Many Republicans are preemptively discrediting the CBO’s analysis, though, ahead of a new score expected this week.

As growing opposition imperiled passage of the Senate version of the healthcare bill, leaders of the conservative Koch network voiced sharp criticism of the legislation at their donor retreat here – stating that the bill needed dramatic changes before they would support it.

Our families, our state, and our economy can’t afford the Senate’s health care plan.

“My suspicion is there’ll be hearings on the crisis that we have”, he said. And we could learn from their mistakes. “We can produce healthier outcomes”.

Five years ago, the Affordable Care Act allowed Kendall Brown to undergo a surgery that would have cost $250,000 out of pocket and receive chemotherapy injections necessary to keep her Crohn’s disease in check. The first would limit changes to Medicaid to only the ACA-created Medicaid Expansion program and apply any savings as an offset for the taxes and penalties that impact working and middle class families; the second bill would move all other ACA-related taxes out of the health care debate and into the pending tax reform bill; and the third would address the failing health insurance exchanges where individuals not eligible for Medicaid and who do not have employer provided health insurance now go for coverage.

States would be faced with a tough decision on how to make up for the lost federal money.

“States like Florida that have run increasingly efficient Medicaid programs, and have not expanded Medicaid, must be rewarded and treated fairly under any bill”, Scott wrote in the op-ed.

The prospect of passing that bill with a president ready to sign it clearly spooked not just the public but even some Republicans, because there was no guarantee that an alternative would fulfill GOP promises of better, cheaper coverage ― or whether Republicans could even agree on a replacement at all. “These drastic cuts to traditional Medicaid will force states to restrict coverage just as the number of seniors needing long-term care peaks”.

It is uncertain whether this version of the bill will pass the Senate.

Here’s the list of 11 governors who sent out that statement: Ohio Gov. John R. Kasich, Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, Alaska Gov. Bill Walker, Hickenlooper, Massachusetts Gov. Charles D. Baker, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, Vermont Gov. Phil Scott, Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe and Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval.

The letter could be dismissed by Republicans, however, as the current head of AHIP is Marilyn Tavenner, who helped implement Obamacare as the head of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Some people have forgotten that when you applied for insurance, you used to have to list every time you’d been to the doctor for years prior so that the insurer could decide if they wanted to deny you coverage. And they would have a very hard time even staying in existence. “It’s about people. This is about people”. The original bill’s CBO scoring projected that 22 million Americans would lose their health insurance. Pat Bruno also anxious about the impacts if more low-income children lost their health coverage.