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octoberlib

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Thu May 4, 2017, 04:30 PM May 2017

GOP senators: We're doing our own healthcare bill

Several Republican senators sent a warning shot to the House after its passage of an ObamaCare repeal bill Thursday, indicating it won’t be easy to get the measure through the upper chamber.

Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nev.), one of the most vulnerable GOP senators up for reelection in 2018, said he wouldn’t support the House’s bill in its current form.

“We cannot pull the rug out from under states like Nevada that expanded Medicaid and we need assurances that people with pre-existing conditions will be protected,” he said in a statement.

Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) made clear his concerns over how the House bill treats Medicaid. While ObamaCare expanded the healthcare program to more low-income Americans, the House bill would eliminate that expansion in 2020.

“I’ve already made clear that I don’t support the House bill as currently constructed,” Portman said in a statement, “because I continue to have concerns that this bill does not do enough to protect Ohio's Medicaid expansion population, especially those who are receiving treatment for heroin and prescription drug abuse.”

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/331996-gop-senators-to-house-healthcare-bill-must-change

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GOP senators: We're doing our own healthcare bill (Original Post) octoberlib May 2017 OP
Just Medicaid? pangaia May 2017 #1
Trust us superpatriotman May 2017 #2
Encouraging. Of course, Trump and state GOPer congresspeople will try to persuade them otherwise. Hoyt May 2017 #3
They're full of shit Thrill May 2017 #4
Here's an idea, why don't they just fully implement and fund the ACA? pandr32 May 2017 #5
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