U.S. bishop urges Senate to remedy health care after vote to proceed

But no one should be fooled.

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill after the Republican-controlled Senate was unable to repeal and replace Obamacare.

Negotiations between lawmakers of the two chambers could then continue past Congress’s August recess, preserving the ability of McConnell and other GOP leaders to keep searching for a health-policy formulation that could garner the support of enough members of their caucus.

“The defeat of this disastrous health care bill is a huge win for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families”, said Peter Berns, CEO of The Arc. Hatched in secret and with no public hearings of committee debate, their plans to repeal the ACA would strip key patient protections, slash Medicaid by hundreds of billions of dollars, and defund Planned Parenthood – one of the country’s largest providers of transgender-inclusive health care and a primary site for HIV testing.

“I want to congratulate the American people because we’re going to give you great health care, and we’re going to get rid of Obamacare which should have been frankly terminated long ago”.

After casting his “yea” vote on the motion to proceed, McCain then called for bipartisan solutions.

So, the “skinny repeal” isn’t a compromise of any sort.

But those who make too much to qualify for that help – and tend to vote Republican – could get hit hard, noted health care consultant Robert Laszewski, a former insurance executive.

Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer of NY, minority leader, stressed that Democrats had been “locked out” of the recent health care debate and he warned that the Republican plan will “certainly mean drastic cuts” in Medicaid and would cause many to lose health care insurance.

We hope members of Congress will take McCain’s words to heart.

The “skinny repeal” doesn’t merit support. Also, those healthy people are less likely to sign up, insurers said, and that leaves insurance companies with only the more costly policyholders.

Plans included in a bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives in May, and mirrored in almost all of the Senate proposals, would have fundamentally altered the program by imposing first-ever caps on federal funding.

“A moment has opened for Congress, and indeed all Americans, to set aside party and personal political interest and pursue the common good of our nation and its people, especially the most vulnerable”, he said.

House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., issued a statement that pointedly reminded GOP voters that the House upheld its end of the deal and approved a bill repealing and replacing Obamacare.

But with three Republicans voting against the measure – Sens.

Whether repeal of the Affordable Care Act is really, most sincerely dead, as the Wicked Witch in the Wizard of Oz was pronounced, remains to be seen. And the conference process that Senator McConnell now would use would only strengthen his hand.

Even conscientious lawmakers (and there are some) can find it impossible to comprehend every word of every bill they vote for or against. Senators who vote for the “skinny repeal” proposal would be creating the conditions for deep cuts that aren’t in the “skinny” bill itself but would emerge from the conference.

Reinsurance helps protect private, non-group insurers so they can pay off unusually high claims from their enrollees, thus enabling them to stay in business. “And millions and millions losing health care”.