U.S. House Republicans are working on changes to
their healthcare overhaul bill to provide more generous tax credits for older Americans and add a work requirement for the Medicaid program for the poor, House Speaker Paul Ryan said on Sunday.
Not exact matches
Getting the plan from
bill to law, however, could prove challenging, given the trouble the GOP has faced in its attempts to
overhaul the US
healthcare system.
In contrast to its
healthcare -
overhaul push that saw many intraparty divisions, the GOP has been relatively cohesive on taxes — not a single Republican voted against the
bill in the Senate.
In a sign of deepening concern among Republicans about the
bill's future, Trump will speak to the party's lawmakers in Congress on Tuesday about the
healthcare overhaul, two House Republican aides said.
As of November 15, 2017, a provision to repeal the individual
healthcare mandate is being discussed as part of the Senate's version of the tax
overhaul bill.
In a sign of deepening concern among Republicans about the
bill's future, Trump will speak to the party's lawmakers in Congress today about the
healthcare overhaul.
The US Senate's
healthcare overhaul appears to be in serious trouble as two more Republicans say they oppose a revised version of the
bill