Five Republican senators now oppose health care bill as written

Lancashire Independent News ^ | June 25, 2017 | Elias Hubbard

[Yosemitest]

This is an Excerpt.

Republican Senator Susan Collins of ME said on Sunday she has extreme reservations about the U.S. Senate's healthcare overhaul and does not think it will be able to pass this week.

The proposal released Thursday calls for a slower phase-out of the Medicaid expansion than a bill adopted earlier by the House....

Rand Paul, who has rejected the plan along with fellow Republican Senators Ted Cruz, Mike Lee and Ron Johnson, said fundamental problems remained that would leave taxpayers subsidizing health insurance companies.
So it is possible that Mr. McConnell views the potential failure of a hastily written health care bill as an eventual boon.

President Donald Trump, who vowed to repeal and replace Obamacare during his campaign, praised the Senate's bill, but noted changes were likely. ...

"It's simply not the answer", the Nevada Republican said at a news conference alongside Gov. Brian Sandoval in Las Vegas.

The Senate bill, which is still in the draft stage, reverses some taxes now mandated by Obamacare while also providing tax credits for low-income people.

As it stands, the Senate draft of the AHCA will make drastic cuts to Medicaid - even bigger than the cuts in the original House bill, which amounted to over $800 billion - screwing over mostly poor and elderly people.
Critics of the bill say those increases will not keep up with rising health care costs.
Sen. "But Republicans believe we have a responsibility to act, and we are", Mr McConnell said.
It would also slap annual spending caps on the overall Medicaid program, which since its inception in 1965 has provided states with unlimited money to cover eligible costs.

Senators had promised that their ACA replacement would be very different than the version that passed the House in May, but the bill instead follows the House's lead in many ways.
And like the House bill, the Senate's legislation rolls back the Obamacare Medicaid expansion, which helped give insurance to more than 11 million people.

Most health care advocates, physician organizations and hospitals have come out against this bill.

At least four GOP senators-along with all Democrats-have voiced opposition to the bill.
Still, Schumer acknowledged it was too close to call as to whether Republicans could muster enough support on their own to pass the bill. ...

Mr McConnell said Democrats chose not to help frame the bill.

[Yosemitest]

Also read this:

06.22.17
Sens. Paul, Cruz, Johnson, and Lee Issue Joint Statement on Senate Health Bill

WASHINGTON – Sens. Rand Paul (R-KY), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Ron Johnson (R-WI), and Mike Lee (R-UT) issued the following statement Thursday responding to the release of the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017:

“Currently, for a variety of reasons, we are not ready to vote for this bill, but we are open to negotiation and obtaining more information before it is brought to the floor.
There are provisions in this draft that represent an improvement to our current health care system, but it does not appear this draft as written will accomplish the most important promise that we made to Americans:
to repeal Obamacare and lower their health care costs.”


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And there's more:

Tom Cotton: Paul Ryan’s Healthcare Bill Neither Repeals Nor Replaces Obamacare




The CBO score for the Senate health care bill not accurate, expert says




At least four Republican senators stand in the way of GOP healthcare bill’s passage




Excerpt from article

Why the Senate won’t pass their health care bill :

1) It’s political suicide for too many senators. ...
2) McConnell won’t give enough on Medicaid for the moderates. ...
3) The conservatives revolt because McConnell moves too far to the middle. ...
4) The Senate’s rules make the bill untenable for too many senators. ...

[momincombatboots]

50 Billion dollars guaranteed direct payouts to insurance companies and only 5 senators say no to an insurer bailout? Absurd!
The insurers aren’t hurting, they just get to leave with their original Obamacare cash.. now they get in line ahead of everyone for more cash?

[who knows what evil?]

Look at the Turtle trying to look tough...hey, Mitch...you might be a turtle, but you’re NO Ninja Turtle. Not even close.

[MichaelCorleone]

Repeal or bust!

Looks like we’ll be choosing the latter - is not now nor ever was an appetite for repeal.

Nice to know “elections have consequences”. Thanks Republican majority - thanks for nothing.

[Diogenesis]

The GOP, liars, promised to REPEAL but did not.

They lied to Americans over and over, and deserve
ignominy for their continued, eternal push for
RomneyCARE — which was THEIR creation.

[RobertoinAL]

FULL REPEAL! Period! You Republicans are no different than Democrats, maybe worse. Your party ran on repeal. We won’t forget next election!

[Psalm 73]

RINO Senator's feel there's not enough good stuff in it for abortion, the sane Senator's don't want anything amenable to abortion in it.
Are we a pro-life party or a party of death?

[vette6387]

For the little good the Senate does, we would be much better off to disband it and save the time and money it consumed. The Seventeenth Amendment destroyed what little utility there was in having it.

[chris37]

So what’s the their alternative?

Nothing?

I do believe they promised something quite different from nothing.

[DoodleDawg]

I do believe they promised something quite different from nothing.

Substituting your own train wreck for Obama's train wreck is doing something. But it's hardly a solution.

[Yosemitest]

TurtleNeck is torpedoing Trump, plan and simple !
From the articles linked;

"3) The conservatives revolt because McConnell moves too far to the middle. ... "

No, The conservatives revolt because McConnell moves too far to THE LEFT. ...

[EQAndyBuzz]

If they want to do this without repealing, might I suggest a few things that needs to happen.

1. All Obamacare taxes repealed.
2. Insurance companies can now sell insurance across state lines providing they stay in the current plan and take back the people that Obamacare displaced.
3. Tort reform must be enacted. If the lawyers don’t like it, then any frivolous lawsuit brought on by a client will be paid by the law firm.
4. Medicaid and Medicare are means tested.
5. Obamacare is not a requirement, but competing policies must reduce their costs by a minimum of 10% with the reduction of 10% each year for 4 years.
6. Let kids stay on parents policies till they are 26. Or, they can decline the coverage by Obamacare and purchase either a catastrophic care policy, a full policy or do it by menu choice so people can mix and match what they want to buy.

That should cover about 10 pages.

[Yosemitest]

That deserves repeating !

Your party ran on "REPEAL".
We won’t forget on the next election !

[j.argese]

What “Conservative” Senators?

[chris37]

Nothing isn’t going to be counted as keeping their promise, sorry.

Not even close.

[Yosemitest]

Let me add one thing to your list:

1. All Obamacare taxes repealed,
AND REFUNDED BACK TO THE TAX PAYERS !

[Sacajaweau]

Collins will never vote for it unless it includes funding for “killing babies in the womb”.

[TheCipher]

Collins will never vote for it unless it includes funding for “killing babies in the womb”.

Yet Planned parenthood is so "strained" in cash, they can afford to dump $750,000 into Ossoff's campaign in Georgia. Every bit of that money should be deducted from any funding they give to Planned Parenthood.

[Yosemitest]

Is you head up your @$$, or are you a mind-numbed robot blindly following Trump ? < /sarc>

Right now any Senator that does NOT SIDE WITH

Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR),
Rand Paul (R-KY),
Ted Cruz (R-TX),
Ron Johnson (R-WI),
and Mike Lee (R-UT),

can NOT call themselves CONSERVATIVE !

[DoodleDawg]

Nothing isn’t going to be counted as keeping their promise, sorry.

And which promise is that? The promise that they won't cut Medicare or Medicaid? The promise that Trumpcare will cover everybody and will offer more options from more insurance companies for better coverage at lower premiums and deductibles than Obamacare? Those promises?

The president and his spokespeople have over-promised to the same extent that the Democrats overpromised Obamacare. The House and Senate plans will fill none of those promises. All they are doing is setting themselves up for the same kind of disaster that the Democrats had with Obamacare.