Just 17% of Americans Approve of the Senate Health Care Bill

I think the president was open-minded about making the bill a better bill.

The top U.S. Senate Republican struggled on Wednesday to salvage major health-care legislation sought by President Donald Trump, meeting privately with a parade of skeptical senators as critics within the party urged substantial changes.

“In West Virginia, Obamacare has led to skyrocketing premiums, co-pays, and deductibles for families and small businesses”.

“Absent these reasonable changes to drive down the cost of premiums and provide consumers with more choices and more freedom, the Club for Growth will oppose the ‘Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017, ‘” McIntosh said.

“My sense is there’s a good chance that issue and other issues people are trying to get addressed can be addressed”, Corker told reporters.

“At the same time, West Virginia has the largest Medicaid population in the country”.

While Montana’s uninsured rate has historically fallen below the national average, the report found that since Montana’s Medicaid program was expanded in January of 2016, the state’s uninsured rate fell below the national rate. The Senate bill would make health care less affordable and less accessible.

Republican leader Mitch McConnell announced they would not vote on the bill ahead of the July 4 recess. A vote on the motion to proceed was to be held today.

HORSLEY: Right. Nearly two-thirds of those we surveyed disapprove of the way Republicans in Congress have been handling health care.

To succeed in gutting health coverage for millions of Americans, Senate Republican leaders need to get a series of lies accepted as truth. “And that’s okay, and I understand that very well”. The Senate now counts 52 Republican members.

“I want to work w/ my GOP & Dem colleagues to fix the flaws in ACA”, Sen.

Gov. John Kasich, R-Ohio, said during a press conference Tuesday that the $2 billion isn’t anywhere near enough money. He hoped a motion to proceed, if there was a vote, would fail.

McConnell postponed a vote on his chamber’s proposal Tuesday, one day after the Congressional Budget Office reported that the plan would increase the number of uninsured Americans by 22 million within 10 years.

State governors, meanwhile, also were weighing in, noting that individual states would assume more health care costs for their residents under the Republican plan.

“Even those with employer-provided care are bound to lose benefits and protections”, he said.

The reports says, “Fewer people would enroll in the nongroup market mainly because the penalty for not having insurance would be eliminated and, starting in 2020, because the average subsidy for coverage in that market would be substantially lower for most people now eligible for subsidies – and for some people that subsidy would be eliminated”.

MARTIN: How is all this – I mean this debate over health care has been going on for so long.