Sentences with phrase «republican health bill»
Major portions of the Senate Republican health bill — including an effort by Reps. Chris Collins and John Faso to reduce county property taxes — likely will end up on the cutting room floor, thanks to a ruling by the Senate parliamentarian.
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While Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has generally downplayed the seriousness of the public health crisis, Clinton yesterday toured a Miami neighborhood health clinic near ground zero of the Zika outbreak and admonished lawmakers for having adjourned until after Labor Day without resolving a partisan impasse over the urgently needed spending bill.
The bill is called the American Health Care Act and it would fulfill a long - running Republican goal — repealing and replacing much of former President Barack Obama's 2010 Affordable Care Act, commonly called Obamacare.
An estimated 23 million people would lose health coverage by 2026 under Republican legislation aimed at repealing Obamacare, a nonpartisan congressional agency said on Wednesday in the first calculation of the new bill's potential impact.
Republicans pulled their health care bill Friday after failing to garner enough votes to pass Donald Trump's plan intended to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, leaving the law better known as Obamacare in place for now.
While Ryan said he felt «very good» about the health bill's prospects in the House, a leading conservative lawmaker, Representative Mark Meadows, told the C - Span Newsmakers program that there were currently 40 Republican «no» votes in the House.
U.S. government debt prices were mixed on Friday as investors awaited a vote on the Republican - led health - care bill.
U.S. stock index futures pointed to a mixed open on Friday as traders await a vote for the Republican - led health - care bill.
Should it somehow pass muster with the Senate (which, in the bill's current form, I can not imagine), it might end up doing what Republicans seem to fear most: enshrining a citizen right to basic health care.
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada said the bill was unacceptable in its present form and blamed the Republicans for risking the health of thousands of people and new born infants.
What remains to be seen is if the tax bill will end up being a better bet for Republicans than the health care bill was for Democrats — who lost control of Congress largely as a result.
When the Congressional Budget Office reported that the AHCA stood to strip 24 million people of their health insurance, Congressional Republicans divided into two camps — those who disliked the bill for fear that it would harm their constituents (not to mention their own electoral prospects) and those who did not feel that the bill went far enough in rolling back the «socialism» of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
Protesters against the Republican health care bill gather inside the office of Sen. Rob Portman, R - Ohio, in Washington on July 17, 2017.
«Republicans should start from scratch and work with Democrats on a bill that lowers premiums, provides long term stability to the markets and improves our health care system.»
Quick recovery in stock market after news Republicans pulling health care bill.
Republicans expressed more favorable views of the health care bill, with 48 % of them approving.
Republicans in Congress are refusing to approve a temporary spending bill, demanding changes or elimination of Obama's 2010 health care law.
Only one in five Americans approve of the Republican - backed health care bill that the House of Representatives passed last week, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll.
U.S. government debt prices were flat on Friday as investors awaited a vote on the Republican - led health - care bill.
Earlier this year, Republicans were unable to follow through on their yearslong promise to repeal former President Barack Obama's signature health bill.
After Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell unveiled his first health care bill on June 22, it was almost immediately clear it would not pass without compromises between the Republican Party's various factions.
Senate Republican leaders on Thursday unveiled a reworked version of their health care bill, following party infighting that threatened to torpedo their effort to replace the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.
Trump over the weekend on Twitter ridiculed Senate Republicans for not passing a health care bill, saying Democrats were laughing at them and they «look like fools.»
But the female Republicans are in a unique position given the bill's potential impact on a range of women's health issues.
When Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell selected the group of 13 lawmakers who would work on drafting a health care bill to replace the Affordable Care Act in May, none of the five female Republican Senators were included.
The fate of the Senate GOP health bill could lie with three female Republican lawmakers who, like many of their colleagues, were left out of the group responsible for drafting it.
Former Republican Senate health policy advisor Rodney Whitlock tweeted that the Senate bill looked like the «definition» of a death spiral.
Republicans are using what's called «budget reconciliation» to pass their health care bill with a bare majority of 50 votes and avoid a Democratic filibuster.
So Senate Republicans decided to comply with the rule by simply having all the most expensive individual cuts in the bill expire, and paying for permanent corporate tax cuts by reducing access to subsidized health insurance and using chained CPI to raise individual taxes over time.
2017's gathering also included a visit from Susan Collins, one of three Republican senators voting «No» to the hastily - crafted skinny repeal health care bill.
Senate Health Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander and Sen. Susan Collins, Maine Republican, have partnered with Democrats on bills that would reel in rate hikes by resuming reimbursements for insurers who pick up low - income customers costs on the Obamacare exchanges and freeing up billions for a «reinsurance» program that blunts the cost of customers with big claims, so others don't have to pay more.
Cruz, his ally Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, and Sen. Lamar Alexander (R - TN), one of the most senior Republicans working on the health care bill, met with the Senate parliamentarian recently.
The president has responded harshly toward Republican congresspeople whom he considers insufficiently supportive of his agenda, even going so far as to meet with their primary challengers, while a pro-Trump political action committee at one point purchased, then withdrew, campaign ads against a senator who was wavering on the Senate GOP's health - care bill.
Dubbed «Ryancare» or «Trumpcare» (over the objection of White House staff), the Republican health care bill is under attack from left and right, with even conservative leaders calling it «Obamacare Lite», «bad policy», a «warmed - over substitute,» and «dead on arrival.»
Trump's line will surely give vulnerable House Republicans flashbacks to his private - until - it - was - public condemnation of their chamber's health - care bill as «mean» this year.
If this Republican Congress fails to pass a good healthcare bill, we should prepare for our next opportunity to reform health care — if such an opportunity ever arises.
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Members of Congress attached the amendment to health care spending bills, starting in 1976 when Rep. Henry Hyde, the late Illinois Republican, first introduced the ban.
«The Republican repeal bills tend to save a few parts of Obamacare (letting kids stay on their parents» plans through age 26, for example), but I've read a lot of them, and none of them save the protections for breastfeeding mothers,» says Sarah Kliff, a senior editor at Vox who covers health care policy.
Speaking with reporters, Hochul knocked the bill as a transfer of health care spending from blue states like New York to Republican red states.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee last week launched new salvos against Republican Reps. John Faso and Claudia Tenney over their votes in support of the American Health Care Act, the House GOP bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is launching a digital ad campaign against 10 House Republicans who voted for the health care bill.
Facing the devastating effect that the Republicans» health care bill will have on families across this state, it's more important than ever that we speak up and fight back,» Cuomo said in a statement.
Trump's revived enthusiasm for tackling health - care legislation before tax policy has highlighted the complicated interplay between Republicans» health - care overhaul and their planned tax bill.
A poll commissioned by the Planned Parenthood Action Fund shows that 50 percent of voters in NY - 19 — Republican Rep. John Faso's district — support the Affordable Care Act and only 33 percent support the American Health Care Act replacement bill.
With his bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act in deep trouble, Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, raised an alternate possibility: Either Republicans come together, or he would have to work with Democrats to shore up the deteriorating health law.
President Donald Trump promised a «great, great surprise» on the Senate Republican health care bill as McConnell worked to restart the stalled legislation.
Top Senate Republicans considered keeping President Barack Obama's tax increase on wealthier people's investments and using the money to bolster their proposed health care subsidies in a bid to mollify moderate GOP lawmakers and salvage the party's struggling bill.
U.S. Senate Republicans are considering breaking with their House colleagues to pass a bill that bans health insurers from charging higher rates to people with pre-existing conditions, but it's still far from clear they'll have the votes.
Trump told Republican senators that the House GOP health - care bill was «mean» and he expects the Senate to «improve» the legislation considerably, according to several Republicans familiar with the gathering.