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CNN
Senate Republican leaders are pushing for a vote on a yet-to-be-unveiled healthcare bill next week before lawmakers leave town for the July 4 recess — likely by Thursday, June 29. In a political exercise that is coming down to the wire, Republican leaders hope to send final legislation to the Congressional Budget Office by Wednesday or Thursday — with the aim of getting back a CBO score some time next week, according to senior GOP sources. Republican senators say they expect to see the bill by the end of this week.
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Politico
Sen. Marco Rubio on Sunday cautioned against fashioning healthcare legislation "behind closed doors" in the Senate and rushing it to the floor for a vote. Rubio was responding to remarks from his colleague, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin), who took issue with the clunky process of moving a healthcare proposal in the Senate.
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Los Angeles Times
In the all-out quest for ways to strip health coverage from millions of people in order to deliver a huge tax cut to the richest Americans, Senate Republicans have been regarded as more moderate than their House colleagues. But a proposal leaked from the Senate GOP's closed-door drafting sessions on an Obamacare repeal bill may put that notion to rest: The Senate is contemplating a change in Medicaid that would cut it even more than the $830 billion proposed by the House.
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The Boston Globe
To understand the dilemma facing Senate Republicans as they struggle to repeal Barack Obama's healthcare law, just talk to Susan Collins of Maine and Rand Paul of Kentucky. They represent the competing poles within the GOP caucus that majority leader Mitch McConnell must satisfy to piece together 50 votes. Collins and several other key moderates are exerting outsized influence on the debate — and they show little sign of backing down. They worry that the House Republican plan would strip insurance from millions of Americans with pre-existing conditions and inflict unacceptably deep cuts on Medicaid.
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The Hill
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), a potential key swing vote on an Obamacare repeal-and-replace plan, isn't sure she could support the emerging Senate Republican healthcare bill. When asked Thursday if she had confidence she could eventually support a bill, Murkowski said she didn't know. "I just truly do not know, because I don't know where it’s going," she said.
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The New York Times
As they draft legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act, Senate Republican leaders are aiming to transform large sections of the American health care system without a single hearing on their bill and without a formal, open drafting session. That has created an air of distrust and concern — on and off Capitol Hill, with Democrats but also with Republicans.
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Reuters
Republican senators trying to repeal Obamacare are forming consensus to keep some of the U.S. healthcare law's taxes they long criticized, in hopes of delaying more drastic funding cuts, particularly to the Medicaid program for the poor and disabled. First proposed by moderate Republicans, the idea is gaining traction among party members, according to five sources involved in or briefed on internal discussions. While no final decisions have been made, a sense of urgency has increased as Republicans draft a replacement bill to former President Barack Obama's healthcare law before Congress goes on recess on June 30.
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Politico
Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin's planned overhaul of Medicaid is running into the unforgiving reality of impoverished small towns like this one, which voted overwhelmingly for President Donald Trump. Making adults work as a condition for getting health benefits is popular with the conservatives running many state capitals and Washington, D.C. But here in Magoffin County, where one of the last coal mines shuttered two years ago, there is little work to be had.
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Kaiser Health News
Dawn Poole often worries about whether her children qualify for Medicaid and have access to the care they need. Much of her anxiety is a direct result of living in Texas. Here, children's eligibility for Medicaid varies by age, but to qualify most children must come from families with incomes at or below 138 percent of the federal poverty level — in 2017, $33,948 for a family of four. Texas also has one of the country’s strictest Medicaid verification systems: It runs regular checks on family finances after kids are enrolled to make sure they continue to qualify. Those checks are the cause of Poole's angst.
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KCUR-FM
Given all the controversy about KanCare — Kansas' privatized Medicaid program — it would be reasonable to expect big crowds at public hearings about renewing the program. But that wasn't the case Wednesday when relative handfuls of healthcare providers and consumers turned out in Topeka for the first in a series of forums scheduled across the state. The sparse turnout disappointed state officials and legislators who attended.
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CNNMoney
Nevada's governor has vetoed a bill that would have made the state the first to open Medicaid to all residents. The Democratic-led state legislature passed a bill earlier this month that would have allowed anyone to purchase a Medicaid-like policy, regardless of their income. Gov. Brian Sandoval, a Republican, on Friday vetoed the bill. The bill called for the state to create the Nevada Care Plan, which would have been separate from the state's Medicaid program but offered nearly all the same benefits.
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FierceHealthcare
Emergency room visits increased in states that expanded Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act, but more of those patients had insurance, according to a new analysis. The study, published in Annals of Emergency Medicine, found that after 2014, states that expanded Medicaid saw an 8.8 percent increase in the number of ER visits covered by Medicaid. But the share of those visits by the uninsured decreased by 5.3 percent.
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