Republican lawmaker says new health care bill leaves too many uninsured according to : 40/29TV

Republican lawmaker says new health care bill leaves too many uninsuredA Republican lawmaker said Friday he couldn't support his party's latest proposal to replace the Affordable Care Act because the new plan would have yanked coverage from too many Americans. In addition to focusing on improving the individual market, Dent said Republicans need to pursue bipartisanship. House GOP leaders were unsuccessful in collecting the votes needed Thursday to move forward on their latest effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Dent, the chair of the House Ethics Committee, is not optimistic that the Republicans plan to replace the Affordable Care Act will be better for the American people. "If we try to muscle a bill through, we will be fighting as well forever.




House Freedom Caucus chair Mark Meadows said that there wouldn't be any more changes to the Republican's health care bill. | AP Photo Freedom Caucus chair: Trump 'just a few' votes short on health care billPresident Donald Trump is just a few votes shy of having enough votes to pass his Obamacare replacement bill through the House, North Carolina Rep. Mark Meadows said on Friday. The Freedom Caucus this week endorsed the Trump administration's repeal-and-replace bill, which has not yet attracted enough support from moderate Republicans. "Obviously, we would have loved a vote in the first 100 days," the chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." "I can tell you, I was on the phone until almost 11 o'clock last night. But on Thursday night, House Republican leaders delayed a vote on the bill, making it impossible for the bill to pass the House before Saturday's 100-day mark.

Congress eyes stopgap to avert shutdown, as health care bill gains steam

Conservatives embraced the revisions as a way to lower people's health care expenses, but moderates saw them as diminishing coverage. With Trump's 100-days marker hitting this Saturday, GOP lawmakers could try to move on the health care plan by the end of the week. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 27, 2017Democrats jeopardizing the safety of our troops to bail out their donors from insurance companies. Yet whether the Freedom Caucus support would be enough remained uncertain, amid concerns from moderates and uncertainty over any bill's prospects in the Senate. At the same time, House Republicans had a breakthrough on health care legislation as a key group of conservatives, the House Freedom Caucus, announced it would support a revised version of the bill.


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