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Graham: GOP healthcare plan

artappraiser — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 14:21:13 +0000

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Lindsey Graham: GOP healthcare plan is ‘mortally wounded’

By Olivia Beavers @ The Hill, 03/15/17 09:15 AM EDT

also @ The Hill:

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) said GOP leaders' ObamaCare replacement bill does not reflect the promises President Trump made on the campaign trail.... Cassidy added he is concerned by the Trump administration’s attempts to discredit projections from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office ...

Yes, Trumpcare still has a

artappraiser — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 13:22:50 +0000

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Yes, Trumpcare still has a path — but not a fast one

By David Nather, Health Care editor @ Axios.com, March 15

Rattled by CBO report,

artappraiser — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 12:38:52 +0000

In reply to A very long thorough article

Rattled by CBO report, moderate Republicans turn against GOP bill

By Lauren Fox and MJ Lee, CNN, March 15

A devastating analysis from the Congressional Budget Office on the House GOP bill to repeal Obamacare has rattled moderates Republicans in the House, who are uneasy about the prospects of voting for a proposal that increasingly appears dead on arrival in the Senate.

Florida Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen said publicly Tuesday that she wouldn't be able to support the GOP health care legislation after the CBO score revealed the high number of people who would lose insurance.

"I plan to vote NO on the current #AHCA bill. As written the plan leaves too many from my #SoFla district uninsured," the Florida congresswoman wrote in two consecutive tweets. "As #AHCA stands, it will cut much needed help for #SoFla's poor + elderly populations. Need a plan that will do more to protect them."

Republican Rep. Leonard Lance, a moderate from New Jersey who Democrats believe will be vulnerable in 2018, told CNN that he believes the House bill will fail in the Senate. As he eyes his own reelection campaign next year, Lance said he doesn't want to support a legislation that would be rejected by his Republican colleagues across the Capitol.

"I do not want to vote on a bill that has no chance of passing over in the Senate," Lance said. "The CBO score has modified the dynamics." In light of the new CBO report, Lance said House leaders must make changes to their existing bill and only bring to the floor a version that can survive in the Senate.

Rep. Charlie Dent, a Pennsylvania Republican and member of the House's moderate Tuesday Group, signaled another concern among moderates: that conservatives in the GOP conference are exerting immense influence over President Donald Trump and potentially imperiling efforts to reform healthcare at all [....]

A very long thorough article

artappraiser — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 02:44:37 +0000

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A very long thorough article on where the Bill is at and what's going on with it:

G.O.P. Senators Suggest Changes for Health Care Bill Offered by House

by Jennifer Steinhauer & Thomas Kaplan @ New York Times, March 14

believe it or not, these are just a few excerpts, it is long and tries to cover the White House and both houses of Congress:

WASHINGTON — A day after a harsh judgment by the Congressional Budget Office on the House plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act, nervous Senate Republicans on Tuesday suggested changes to the bill.

They told Trump administration officials — including the health secretary, Tom Price — that they wanted to see lower insurance costs for poorer, older Americans and an increase in funding for states with high populations of hard-to-insure people. They said those changes would greatly improve the chances of Senate approval even though they might further alienate conservatives.

Senator John Thune of South Dakota, a member of the Republican leadership, said Senate Republicans wanted to make the bill “more helpful to people on the lower end.”

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“The C.B.O. score has modified the dynamics,” said Representative Leonard Lance, Republican of New Jersey. “It’s incumbent upon our leadership in the House to make sure that whatever is being discussed has the ability to pass in the Senate,” Mr. Lance said, “and I do not believe that that is currently the case.”

Mr. Trump was left to strike a balance between siding with House Republicans while also distancing himself from the details, with top aides conceding that the legislation needed modifications before it could pass the full Congress.

On Tuesday, the president talked with House leaders about revisions to address the concerns of the most conservative members, and to Republican senators who fear the measure headed to the House floor would be too costly for older residents.

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Senator Bill Cassidy, Republican of Louisiana, noted that Americans over 60 who earn a little too much to qualify for Medicaid would “have a hard time affording insurance” under the House plan, since insurance premiums would rise far higher than the modest tax credits on offer. “That’s not good,” he said.

The House bill includes large transition grants to the states that can be used to help cover people with pre-existing medical conditions, subsidize insurance purchases beyond the bill’s tax credits, or other interventions; some Senate Republicans would seek to make those bigger as well.

That could upend White House efforts to shore up support from Mr. Ryan’s conservative flank. On Tuesday, several of the most conservative members of the House continued to voice their opposition.

[....]

GOP scrambles after scorching

artappraiser — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 01:42:43 +0000

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GOP scrambles after scorching health bill appraisal

A Congressional Budget Office report is expected to make it harder to win over centrist Republicans.

By Kyle Cheney, Burgess Everett and Rachel Bade @ Politico, Updated 03/13/17 08:56 PM EDT

CBO health score stirs alarm in the Senate

By Jordain Carney @ The Hill, 03/13/17 07:05 PM EDT