Ryan Hasn’t ‘Given Thought’ to Members’ Health Care Coverage

In all, the bill provides $883 billion in tax relief by repealing nearly all of the taxes enacted under President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act, according to estimates by the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation, the official tax scorekeeper for Congress.

Meanwhile, GOP senators and governors are pressing for elimination or changes in the bill’s phase-out of enhanced federal funding for the ACA’s Medicaid expansion to low-income adults.

“I think you’re going to see a different bill if it does get out of the House, if it does get out of the Senate, than the bill you see today”, he said.

The Freedom Caucus chairman made his comments before House GOP leaders announced Friday they were making modifications to the GOP bill. They not only oppose deeper cuts, but would like to move the bill in the opposite direction. One leading House conservative said the alterations were insufficient and claimed enough allies to sink the measure, and support among moderates remained uncertain.

Asked on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show about Cotton’s opposition, Ryan replied, “I love this, because we’ve gotten criticized by other folks in the conservative movement for waiting too long”.

A spokesperson for Donovan says the lawmaker has met with various health care representatives in the past two weeks and plans on communicating residents’ concerns to Congress.

“AARP recognizes the magnitude of the upcoming vote on this harmful legislation that creates an Age Tax, cuts the life of Medicare, and gives sweetheart deals to big drug and insurance companies while doing nothing to lower the cost of health care or prescriptions”.

Conservatives in the House Freedom Caucus can’t stomach the wider advanced tax credits and some of the other measures in a bill they say doesn’t even live up to the legislation they last sent to Obama. Republican Sens. Tom Cotton of Arkansas and Ted Cruz of Texas have voiced strong objections, and Senate moderates don’t want to boot constituents off coverage. “It also lends support to our view that 4,000 Pennsylvanians will die prematurely because a lack of insurance will make it impossible for them to get the health care they need”.

Twenty-three Republicans including Amash have gone on record either opposing the bill or leaning against it, according to a CNN tally.

“This is what I would like people to understand”, said Curran. “I do not support the House bill in its current form”.

Trump has tried to bring holdouts on board, and while it’s not clear how successful he’s been he has adopted a posture of public confidence. And though he’s been one of Trump’s unwavering supporters, including using his position on the Armed Services Committee to defend the president over Russian Federation, he’s not ready to fall in line yet, especially given the mixed signals Trump has sent on whether he actually supports the bill as-is.

Republican members have been assured that the current House bill is on track and being reworked to include the option for states to impose work requirements for able-bodied adults who are on Medicaid, something the RSC has been lobbying for.

“These changes definitely strengthen our number”, House Majority Whip Steve Scalise told reporters on Friday.

U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy, R-Wausau, says it’s time for battling Republicans to come together on a plan to replace Obamacare.

That might not necessarily be what Republicans have in mind, however, should their Obamacare repeal efforts fail. “I do not believe the AHCA now does that”.

The Republican bill also does little to address consumers’ chief complaint – steep deductibles. “But should the leadership force a vote on this current version, it will be defeated”.

For 20 years, Republicans railed against the New Deal.

“I imagine none of our motions will pass”, he said.

“A lot of members were saying the president’s talking about an open negotiation, which means he’s not yet ready to sign onto this bill”, Scalise said. “We don’t believe the federal government has the responsibility or the authority to force people to buy products”, he told RCP.

The governors’ proposal would keep an expansion of the program and make it available to other states that didn’t expand it under the Affordable Care Act. “Cuts to subsidies to employer-based health care will lead to the loss of insurance for another 250,000 to 300,000 people”.