In Siegel's very first PowerPoint slide, we learn that
the Senate health care bill then mooted was 2,074 pages long, contained some 400,000 words, and might spawn as many as 40,000 regulations.
(The latest version of
the Senate health care bill, released Thursday, also would include $ 45 billion to help support substance abuse treatment.)
A senior aide tells CNN that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is likely to include an «opt out» version of the public insurance option in
the Senate health care bill Reid is currently crafting.
Two senior Democratic Senate sources told CNN Thursday that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is leaning toward a public option with the state opt - out provision in
the Senate health care bill that will reach the full chamber in coming weeks.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has vowed to force counties to include a «Faso - Collins federal tax» on their property tax bills to replace revenue should the amendment to
the Senate health care bill be enacted.
And beyond the Faso - Collins amendment,
the Senate health care bill «cuts billions of dollars for New York's Medicaid program, leading to devastating cuts to New York's hospitals, nursing homes, and home care providers,» Cuomo wrote.
«Cuomo only wants New Yorkers to die in the dark underground from train crashes,» Wally E. Brennan said in a retweet from Cuomo's Twitter account on
the Senate health care bill.
Both Republicans and Democrats are saying
the Senate health care bill will not pass, even if an actual vote is delayed longer.
House Republican Leader John Boehner announced today that his party will call for a vote on a resolution requiring an actual up - or - down House vote on
the Senate health care bill, order to prevent the so - called Slaughter solution.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo trashed the U.S.
Senate health care bill as an «ultra-conservative assault on New Yorkers and our values» that could hit the state hard, financially speaking.
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Not exact matches
And even before the
Senate voted to gut key provisions of the ACA in early December, he introduced a
bill to overturn the 2010
health care law in 2013.
Previous analyses of that effort suggested it would cost even more losses in
health care coverage (to the tune of 32 million fewer insured by 2026, according to the Congressional Budget Office) compared to the
Senate's current
bill and foster sharp premium spikes.
Let's begin with the big news from last night: At the end of the day, a band of conservative GOP lawmakers thrust the final stake through the heart of the
Senate's
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.
After a fairly brutal assessment of what the
Senate GOP's
health care bill to repeal Obamacare would do to the insurance market, the Congressional Budget Office delivered another surprising analysis of the legislation on Thursday.
The CBO released one more report card on the
Senate's
health care bill.
A number of GOP Senators are saying that the
Senate's
health care bill probably won't get a vote until the later part of July — a pretty clear departure from
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's hope to get the legislation out of the way before last week's 4th of July recess.
We have no idea when the
Senate is going to vote on its
health care bill.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has yet again delayed a vote on the
Senate's controversial
health care bill — this time, because Arizona Sen. John McCain is recovering from surgery (and without him, there aren't enough votes to pass the legislation).
Let's cut to the chase: The big news out of Washington on Monday was the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) newly released analysis of the
Senate's
health care bill.
The
Senate bill, like an earlier version that barely passed the House, eliminated mandates and taxes under Obamacare, and unraveled an expansion of the Medicaid
health care program for the poor and disabled.
32 million Americans could lose their
health care coverage relative to Obamacare if the
Senate's
health care bill passes, according to a new analysis.
The GOP
Senate's efforts to repeal Obamacare with its own
health care bill have been on the brink of defeat over the past 48 hours.
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 Obamac
care bill, following party infighting that threatened to torpedo their effort to replace the Affordable
Care Act, also known as Obamac
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.»
In fact, Arizona Sen. John McCain himself — who made a dramatic return to the
Senate on Tuesday following a recent brain cancer diagnosis — slammed the «shell»
health care bill (it's unclear exactly which possible version he was referring to), in a speech to the
Senate just minutes after he voted «aye» on the motion to proceed.
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 inclu
care bill to replace the Affordable
Care Act in May, none of the five female Republican Senators were inclu
Care Act in May, none of the five female Republican Senators were included.
Several lobbyists and outside experts theorized that the waiting period had been excluded from the initial draft of the
Senate's
health care bill because of concerns about the «Byrd Rule.»
Powerful budget committees in the State House and
Senate signed off on a package of
bills on Tuesday that would raise the minimum age to purchase a firearm to 21 from 18, mandate a three - day waiting period for most gun purchases, and increase funding for school safety measures and access to mental
health care.
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.
It's still likely to result in a
bill that scales back federal support for insurance coverage and overhauls Medicaid while cutting taxes for the
health care industry — but if any plan can pass the
Senate, it's likely to look something like that.
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.
The fate of
health care reform in the
Senate is uncertain, with members of both parties saying major changes need to be made to the House version of the
bill before the
Senate can vote.
Now that the
health care bill has been defeated,
Senate leaders hope to move on to tax reform and to passing a spending
bill in order to avoid a government shutdown at the end of September.
The answer is the reason this
bill should never have been passed» the reason that all of us must urge our senators to stop this kind of
health -
care reform in the
Senate.
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.
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.
U.S.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell delayed the vote on the Republican leadership's
health care bill until after the July 4 recess.
Creating a fresh challenge for
Senate Republicans trying to muster support for their
health care bill, the CBO said projected Medicaid spending would be 35 percent lower after two decades.
U.S.
Senate Republican leaders scrambled Sunday to rally support for their
health care bill as opposition continued to build inside and outside Congress, and as several Republican senators questioned whether it would be approved this week.
U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand called on
Senate Republicans to reject the U.S. House
health care plan, calling the measure a «cruel and dangerous
bill,» that would leave millions of Americans «stranded without the
health care they need.»
WASHINGTON — Mayor Bloomberg laced into New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in a tense phone call this week over the
Senate health -
care bill, a source told The Post yesterday.
Sen. Chuck Schumer says the
Senate will pass a
health care bill before the end of the year.
U.S. Sen. John McCain's return to work after surgery won't be enough to revive the ailing GOP
health care bill,
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said.
With their
bill to repeal and replace the Affordable
Care Act in tatters, U.S.
Senate leaders today pushed to vote on a different measure that would repeal major parts of President Barack Obama's
health law without a replacement — but that plan appeared also to collapse.
The U.S.
Senate will postpone its vote on the
health care reform
bill — originally scheduled for this week — while Sen. John McCain recovers from surgery to remove a blood clot from over this left eye.