Obamacare repeal bill ‘dead’ as key Republican opposes Trump

CHANG: Senator Collins’ decision came on the heels of this Congressional Budget Office analysis. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.). What a traitor! You have to deal with the facts as they are, not as you wish them to be!

The latest version of the Republican health care plan to replace Obamacare, known as the Affordable Care Act, appears to have failed even before making it to the floor of the U.S. Senate.

Kentucky was another state seeing big gains under Obama’s health care law, its uninsured rate dropping from 14.3 percent before it took effect to 5.1 percent past year.

In a long, a detailed explanation Sen.

As Republican Senator Charles Grassley – still a supporter – admitted, for Republicans it matters less what is in the repeal than that the repeal get done: “You know, I could maybe give you 10 reasons why this bill shouldn’t be considered”, the Iowa Republican said.

“The Republicans, their leadership are trying to buy off senators by paying off the senators from Alaska and ME and giving enough money to get them to vote for it”. Ron Wyden, the committee’s ranking Democrat, warned that Collins’ opposition did not definitively kill the Graham-Cassidy bill.

“We basically ran out of time”, Wisconsin Sen.

According to Politico, Sen. While Republicans have until Saturday to pass the bill with a simple majority, and Cassidy has already announced changes to the measure’s text, it’s hard to see how any of the three lawmakers would change their mind.

MI would lose money because it accepted federal dollars to expand its Medicaid coverage to more families; that expansion would be ended under the Graham-Cassidy bill.

Barring a reversal, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., must decide whether to hold a roll call at all.

But Collins said that despite the positive numbers, “Maine still loses money under whichever version of the Graham-Cassidy bill we consider because the bills use what could be described as a “give with one hand, take with the other” distribution model”.

Senate hearing rooms that could have fit hundreds were left idle Monday afternoon, and instead Republicans chose one that could fit just 30 members of the public, leaving hundreds waiting in the hall outside.

“My preference obviously would be to pass [Obamacare repeal] this week”, Johnson said.

“I’m so sorry about this process”, Sen.

Meanwhile, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Sen.

It was a major blow for President Donald Trump, who has made repealing former President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare law his top legislative priority.

That money would then be shared among all states based partly on how many lower-income adults they have.

“Well, to be clear, due to events under our control and not under our control, we do not have the votes”, Cassidy said.

“We [nurses] urge everyone to say, ‘enough is enough, we cannot take this anymore!’ We need to send a message to the Republicans in Washington that we will fight until the very end for the cause of our patients”.

Finally, the unique dynamic created by combining repeal and replace in the same bill put Republicans in an impossible position. “We’re going to get there”. “I am disappointed that Republican leaders have chose to freeze this bipartisan”.

If they had engaged in any serious deliberative process, they would have had to grapple with the views of the bipartisan National Association of Medicaid Directors on Graham-Cassidy’s approach of marrying block grants to severe cuts.

Some quotes used came from the Associated Press, The Hill, and Politico.