08 May, 2017
All that suffering might prove to be pointless, though, if the House Republicans' vote to finally repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act hits what will be, with any luck, the brick wall of the U.S. Senate.
The controversial new health care bill passed by House Republicans Thursday could send veterans from private insurance plans into the Veterans Affairs medical system, the department's secretary said.
"Texas alone has approximately 190,000 enrollees in its individual market with pre-existing chronic conditions, almost 80,000 more people than the funds earmarked for the entire country would cover", said Avalere.
"With the passage of the House GOP bill, tens of millions of middle income Americans will get tax relief from Obamacare's long list of tax hikes", Norquist asserted. Susan Collins (R-Maine) saying on ABC News' "This Week" that they'd be "starting from scratch" on a new measure.
"I've already made clear that I don't support the House Bill as now constructed because I continue to have concerns that this Bill does not do enough to protect Ohio's Medicaid expansion population", said Republican Senator Rob Portman.
"I feel like there will be some changes, that is part of the process", White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said. The CBO released a score for the original AHCA in March, but the bill that passed the House Thursday was much different from the previous version, thus its cost expected to be significantly different. It gets worse: The bill also guts the Medicaid program, which provides health care to about 74 million poor, disabled and elderly Americans, stripping away $880 billion over 10 years or about one-fourth of its budget.
"Republican Senators will not let the American people down!"
President Trump tried to clean that up with a Tweet on Friday. "ObamaCare premiums and deductibles are way up-it was a lie and it is dead!"
President Trump is confident his new plan will pass after "TrumpCare" made it through the first round in the House.
The White House on Sunday scoffed at Democratic claims that voters will punish the GOP in the 2018 elections for upending former President Barack Obama's law. "This is a scar they will carry", House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi told reporters.
He is also promising that the American Health Care Act will be a big league bargain for consumers. The House bill halts the expansion, in addition to cutting federal spending on the program, which Trump's health chief argued is flawed and dictates too much from Washington. It has given insurance companies the right to deny people health care if they have a so-called "pre-existing" condition.
