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Tuesday, June 27, 2017
Budget office: Senate health bill adds 22M uninsured
WASHINGTON
(AP)
— The Senate Republican
health care bill would leave
22 million more Americans
uninsured in 2026 than
under President Barack
Obama’s health care law, the
Congressional Budget Office
estimated Monday, compli-
cating GOP leaders’ hopes of
pushing the plan through the
chamber this week.
Minutes after the report’s
release, three GOP senators
threatened to oppose a
pivotal vote on the proposal
this week, enough to sink
it unless Senate Majority
Leader Mitch McConnell,
R-Ky., can win over some
of them or other GOP critics.
The bill will fail if just three
of the 52 Republican senators
“This bill is every bit as mean as
the House bill.”
— Chuck Schumer, Senate Minority Leader
oppose it, an event that would
deal a humiliating blow to
President Donald Trump and
Senate leaders.
The 22 million additional
people without coverage is
just a hair better than the 23
million who’d be left without
insurance under the measure
the House approved last
month, the budget office has
estimated. Trump has called
the House version approved
last month “mean” and told
Senate Republicans to approve
legislation with more “heart.”
In good news for the GOP,
the budget office said the
Senate bill would cut the deficit
by $202 billion more over the
coming decade than the House
version. Senate leaders could
use some of those savings to
attract moderate support by
making Medicaid and other
provisions in their measure
more generous, though
conservatives would prefer
using that money to reduce
federal deficits.
The
White
House
lambasted the nonpartisan
budget office in a statement,
saying it has a “history
of inaccuracy” projecting
coverage. Democrats said the
report confirmed their own
analysis of the GOP measure.
“This bill is every bit as
mean as the House bill,”
said Senate Minority Leader
Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.
Of the 22 million without
coverage by 2026 under the
Senate plan, 15 million would
be without it next year, the
budget office said. That could
be a particular concern to
moderate Sen. Dean Heller,
R-Nev., who faces perhaps the
toughest 2018 re-election race
of any Senate Republican and
has said he can’t support the
measure if huge numbers of
people lose coverage.
The budget office report said
coverage losses would espe-
lation. She tweeted that she
favors a bipartisan effort to
fix Obama’s 2010 statute but
added, “CBO analysis shows
Senate bill won’t do it.”
In addition, conservative
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said
he would oppose that motion
unless the bill was changed.
And fellow conservative Ron
Johnson, R-Wis., said he had
“a hard time believing” he’d
have enough information to
back that motion this week.
Those two — plus fellow
conservatives Mike Lee of
Utah and Ted Cruz of Texas
— have said the current
measure doesn’t do enough to
erase Obama’s law and reduce
premiums. All four said last
week they’d oppose the bill
without changes, as did Heller.
cially affect people between
ages 50 and 64, before they
qualify for Medicare, and with
incomes below 200 percent
of poverty level, or around
$30,300 for an individual.
In one example, the report
says that in 2026 under
Obama’s law, a 64-year-old
earning $26,500 would pay
premiums amounting to
$1,700 a year, after subsidies.
Under the Senate bill, that
person would pay $6,500,
partly because insurers would
be able to charge older adults
more.
Moderate Sen. Susan
Collins, R-Maine, said she
would vote against a GOP
procedural motion, expected
Wednesday,
to
begin
formally debating the legis-
Photo: Tom
Dellinger
AP Photo/Susan Walsh
President Donald Trump
and Indian Prime Minister
Narendra Modi hug while
making statements at the
White House on Monday.
Trump, Modi
exchange hugs
in Rose Garden
WASHINGTON (AP)
— So much for handshakes.
President Donald Trump
found out Monday that
India’s Prime Minister
Narendra Modi is a hugger.
Modi swooped in for two
big bear hugs with the U.S.
president during their joint
statements in the Rose Garden,
wrapping his arms around
Trump’s midsection and
ending their first embrace with
a lingering handshake that
stretched the president’s arm
between their two lecterns.
After wrapping up his own
remarks, the much shorter
Modi hugged Trump a second
time, placing his head close
to the president’s shoulder
in video that quickly spread
around social media.
Modi offered yet another
embrace as he departed the
White House. After shaking
Trump’s hand, Modi went in
for a third and final public
hug — resting his head first
near Trump’s left shoulder,
then near his right. Trump
welcomed the parting
gesture, patting Modi kindly
on the back.
Trump welcomed Modi
to the White House for
their first in-person meeting
and both sought to convey
warm relations between
the two global powers. The
president said he had lived
up to his campaign promise
to give India “a true friend
in the White House” and
announced that daughter
Ivanka Trump had accepted
an invitation to visit India
this fall.
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