Republicans make desperate bid to save health care bill
In a late bid to win votes and stave off defeat,
A vote must occur this week for
President
"I don't know what they're doing," Trump told reporters about the bill's
Two
Collins cited the bill's cuts in the Medicaid program for low-income people and the likelihood that it would result in many losing health coverage and paying higher premiums. The
"It's very difficult for me to envision a scenario where I would end up voting for this bill," said Collins.
The conservative Cruz also voiced opposition, underscoring the bill's problems with both ends of the
"Right now, they don't have my vote," Cruz said at a festival in
Cruz said he doesn't think fellow conservative Sen.
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The numbers are misleading, partly because they omit GOP Medicaid cuts from clamping per-person spending caps on the program, said
"We're moving forward and we'll see what happens next week," Graham said earlier Sunday.
Paul said even though the bill transforms federal health care dollars into block grants states would control, the
"Block granting Obamacare doesn't make it go away," Paul said.
McCain has complained that
Murkowski has remained uncommitted, saying she's studying the bill's impact on
Senate Majority Leader
The bill would repeal much of the 2010 law, including its tax penalties on people who don't buy insurance and on larger employers not offering coverage to workers. States could loosen coverage requirements under the law's mandates, including prohibiting insurers from charging seriously ill people higher premiums and letting them sell policies covering fewer services.
It would eliminate Obama's expansion of Medicaid and the subsidies the law provides millions of people to reduce their premiums and out of pocket costs, substituting block grants to states.
Collins was on
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