Schumer blasts Trump’s threat to end ObamaCare payments: Start ‘acting presidential’

The president has levers he can pull to either help sustain the law known as Obamacare or undermine it, health care experts said.

‘Budget reconciliation is killing R’s in Senate. I think it’s a good time to hit the reset button.

“It is time for it to stop being Obamacare or Trumpcare”, said Slavitt.

Trump’s rant against the filibuster kicked off early Friday, a few hours after three Republican senators joined every Democrat to sink the GOP’s last-ditch effort to overturn Obamacare, 51 to 49.

McConnell put the health bill on hold and announced that the Senate would move onto other legislation next week.

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Of Arizona Sen. John McCain, King says McCain recently told the Senate “he would return and ‘give all of you cause to regret the nice things you said about me.’ He kept his word”. Two Republican colleagues – who also happen to be women – were there first.

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer is praising the three Republicans who broke with their party to reject the GOP health care bill, especially John McCain. Additionally, it would have raised the contribution limit for tax-free health savings accounts, extended some more latitude through waivers in how states could run their marketplaces and blocked Medicaid funds from Planned Parenthood clinics for one year.

Lawmakers have not given up on the seven-year-long effort to undo Obamacare, reports The Washington Post, but with Friday’s failure to push through a “skinny repeal” measure that would have stripped many mandates from the healthcare plan, incumbent lawmakers are left with accusations that they did not live up to the promises that got them elected.

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Nearly every national patient and provider group had opposed the effort, in part because of deep proposed cuts to the Medicaid program, and much still needs to be done to correct the flaws in the program, said Dr. David Barbe, president of the American Medical Association.

Some senators wanted the bill to pass with hopes that it would move to a House-Senate Conference Committee. The GOP bills would have dramatically reduced spending on both, leaving anywhere from 16 million to more than 30 million uninsured.

The bill the House passed in May would allow insurers to levy a 30% surcharge on those who let their coverage lapse but then seek to sign up for new policies. That would have sent a shock wave through health insurance markets, spiking premiums.

But it still wasn’t clear how McCain would end up voting Thursday night. It appears that McCain feels that amending the current Obamacare bill is the way to go, which is what the bill was intended for.

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The Senate has one vote scheduled when it reconvenes on Monday afternoon: whether to confirm a USA circuit court judge.

“What I can tell you though is that the court has made a decision that those payments were made illegally”, Price said.

As the developments played out, the slender 52-48 GOP majority was divided among itself over what it could agree to.

Opponents mobilized quickly against McConnell’s new strategy.

Some conservative groups have been calling for that policy to be revoked.

And a bipartisan group of governors including John Kasich of OH and Brian Sandoval of Nevada also announced against it.

An Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll picked up what could potentially be a bigger shift in public attitudes.