It’s a crucial measure because Republicans have a majority in the Senate, but they don’t have enough votes to end a filibuster. Reed stressed in a statement that Friday’s vote was the first step in a process that will take time.
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“If you proceed in that direction, you’re going to kill the Affordable Care Act and, frankly, I don’t believe they will replace it”, said Rep.
Amodei said he was leaning for now toward voting for the Obamacare repeal resolution.
They voted against keeping their (currently in place) healthcare coverage that funds contraceptives.
During the Senate vote on what is largely a procedural measure, Democrats protested that millions of Americans could lose health insurance they had gained under the Affordable Care Act.
A town hall attendee undergoing cancer treatment who said they need Obamacare to purchase their own insurance asked Ryan “why would you repeal the Affordable Care Act without a replacement?” This means that if Obamacare is eventually revoked, around 55 million American women won’t have copay support for any form of birth control.
The House vote passed 227 to 198.
Ryan said Republicans would like to pack whatever replacement provisions they can into repeal legislation.
“Let’s work to address some of the shortcomings of the ACA rather than repeal it and put in danger all these healthcare protections that people have”, said Democratic Representative James McGovern of MA.
Eleventh District U.S. Rep. Mark Meadows, R-Jackson, told MSNBC this week that a replacement for the ACA must follow closely behind its repeal. The Senate is set to vote this week on a timeline to draft legislation repealing Obamacare. The quick action in both houses of Congress puts Republicans in position to gut the controversial health reform law often called Obamacare.
“We’re moving forward with a yes today, because … almost every Republican ever who has arrived here since 2010 since this awful piece of legislation was passed, made a promise to the American people that at first opportunity …”
It comes after the outgoing Democrat administration announced a record number signed up for Obamacare, with the highest take up in states won by Trump.
Dent said Republicans’ replacement plan has not yet been “fully developed or well-articulated, and we must develop that prior to initiating this process”.
“We’re not holding hard deadlines, only because we want to get it right”, Ryan said.
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President-elect Donald Trump said a delay of that length was unacceptable, telling the Times: “It (Obamacare) won’t be repeal and then two years later go in with another plan”.
