Senate’s Obamacare replacement bill cuts Medicaid, defunds America’s largest abortion chain and slashes taxes as Republicans gear up for battle over the future of health care

Thursday, June 22, 2017
By Paul Martin

The bill would repeal most of the taxes that pay for Obamacare and roll back the law’s Medicaid expansion
Also promises to cut off funding for abortions in government-subsidized health plans except in cases of rape or incest, or to save a pregnant woman’s life
Bill’s Medicaid slashing wouldn’t kick in until 2025 but it would cut deeper than the House bill that passed last month
Unlike the House, the Senate would drop waivers allowing states to let insurers boost premiums on some people with pre-existing conditions
It would also allow low-income people to keep most of the subsidies that have allowed them to buy insurance under Obamacare
Republicans have a 52-48 Senate majority, meaning Democrats can kill the bill if just 3 from the GOP refuse to vote for it

DAVID MARTOSKO, US POLITICAL EDITOR
DAILYMAIL.COM
22 June 2017

Senate Republicans unveiled draft health care legislation on Thursday that would cut Medicaid, end penalties for people not buying insurance and erase a raft of tax increases as part of their long-awaited plan to scuttle Obamacare.

The Medicare cuts, sure to anger Democrats, wouldn’t begin until 2025 but would take deeper swipes at the popular program than the version of the legislation that passed the House of Representatives last month.

After weeks of closed-door meetings that angered Democrats and some Republicans, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell released the proposal online.

The package represents McConnell’s attempt to quell criticism by party moderates and conservatives and win the support he needs in a vote he hopes to stage next week. It is still subject to additions, deletions and negotiations that could change it significantly by the time a vote is called.

President Donald Trump, speaking to reporters at the White House, predicted ‘a little negotiation, but it’s going to be very good.’

‘Obamacare is a disaster. It’s dead,’ he said during unrelated remarks, ‘Totally dead. And we’re putting a plan out today that is going to be negotiated. We’d love to have some Democrat support but they’re obstructionists. They’ll never support [it]. We won’t get one no matter how good it is.’

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