Health insurers says Senate bill’s Medicaid cuts to hurt states

“It would be so great if the Democrats and Republicans could get together, wrap their arms around it and come up with something that everybody’s happy with”, the president said. People are voicing opposition to the proposed Senate Republican health care bill.

Trump’s role is expected to become more pronounced in coming days as the vote nears.

McConnell, R-Ky., released the bill Thursday after weeks of closed-door meetings searching for middle ground between conservative senators seeking an aggressive repeal of Obama’s statute and centrists warning about going too far.

With Democrats and independents unified in opposition, McConnell can only afford to lose two of the 52 GOP votes in the Senate.

“Any federal legislator who votes for this bill and says, oh I didn’t cut Medicaid, I just sent it back to the states-that whole argument.is deliberately misleading”, he added. “So, we have 142 pages to go through”, she said.

The president said he thinks Republicans in the Senate are doing enough to push through the bill.

Healthcare stocks closed down 0.1 % on Friday, clawing back some losses after the sector dropped sharply late in the session on Heller’s announcement.

As pointed out by several outlets, if the Affordable Healthcare Act (ACA) – better known as Obamacare – was an attempt to ensure that the wealthy pay more for healthcare and the poor pay far less, the AHCA was an attempt to reverse that, and then some. The Senate GOP unveiled its proposal Thursday. Ted Cruz of Texas, oppose the current bill out outright.

Sen. Johnson has harshly criticized this aspect of the Affordable Care Act, saying it is wrong to force people to buy insurance, especially at rates and coverage levels they do not want. “And we’ll see if we can take care of that”. “I think that they’ll probably get there, but we’ll have to wait and see”. However, “as now drafted, this bill does not do almost enough to lower premiums”. The Trump White House keeps talking about making government more “transparent”. Even Donald Trump called the House bill “mean”, despite celebrating its passage last month. He indicated the Senate plan met that request. So it is possible that Mr. McConnell views the potential failure of a hastily written health care bill as an eventual boon. He says that there is never going to be a bill that has it all and makes everyone happy. The legislation would phase out federal funding for Medicaid expansion – now covering about 11 million people in 31 states – beginning in 2020, and shift more of those costs back to states. The bill would create a new system of federal tax credits to help people buy health insurance, while offering states the ability to drop numerous benefits required by the ACA.