Medicaid cuts won’t harm beneficiaries, access to care, Price says

House Speaker Paul Ryan, the Republican plan’s top backer in Congress, said he is “certain” that the CBO will show a reduction in the number of Americans with coverage.

“If the CBO was right about Obamacare to begin with, there’d be 8 million more people on Obamacare today than there actually are”, said Mick Mulvaney, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, disputing the accuracy of CBO data. John Kasich of Ohio, Rick Snyder of Michigan, Brian Sandoval of Nevada, and Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas said in a recent letter to congressional leaders.

“And if people just want little changes to the bill they’re going to be able to be bought”.

He added that he’s willing to make changes to the measure, but “we gotta make sure we hit the sweet spot”. “It passed the budget committee by one vote”.

“This is not a bill I could support in its current form”, Collins told the Portland Press Herald. Those same Republican senators who are saying that the current bill can’t get through their chamber because it’s too harsh.

The senator took particular issue with the prospect of Democrats joining Republicans in the Senate to overcome a filibuster and pass what he called “mythical legislation” to stabilize the insurance market in the future.

Given the CBO “scoring” of their bill, House Republicans ought to start over on their plan to repeal and replace Obamacare. “They can’t get it together to get all the paperwork together”. Some conservatives are pushing for it to last only until 2018. So basically, Trump’s win was built on older, poorer people, for whom this law appears to drive up premiums and drive down the insurance rate, while benefiting the younger and wealthier.

Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin has been a public advocate for health care reform for almost two decades, and has already come out strongly against the new bill. But interestingly, the Coverage Caucus isn’t just moderate Republicans in swing states or districts who are anxious about losing their seats to Democrats (though many of them are represented).

Trump described the planned Obamacare replacement as “a great plan” and “fantastic”.

“Most people on Medicaid who can work, work”, said Rep. Jan Schakowski (D-Ill.). He didn’t provide more specifics. He says the bill would also cause the Medicare trust fund to dry up four years earlier than expected, pinching state budgets and pricing many seniors out of insurance.

“We are doing some incredible things”.

There are now 33 Republican governors in the USA, 16 of which head states that expanded Medicaid. But other conservatives expressed continued opposition and it remained uncertain that party leaders had won enough support to push the high-profile measure through the House next week.

And a big chunk of that increase, 14 million, would come from Medicaid enrollees, as the Republican plan cuts into the ACA’s Medicaid expansion.

“This solidifies my support”, Barr said. “Big problem. Huge problem”.

Republicans mostly fell into two camps after the damning CBO report.