Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, chairman of the Senate health committee, said
that he and other Senate committee chairmen were working with their House counterparts, with the goal of developing a “consensus document.” The House, he said, will probably act first but “will have the input of senators and the president.”
House conservatives are saying that any plan must begin with a full repeal of the Affordable Care Act and a replacement that looks nothing like it.
WASHINGTON — House Republican leaders on Thursday presented their rank-and-file members with the outlines of their plan to replace the Affordable Care Act, leaning heavily on tax credits to finance individual insurance purchases
and sharply reducing federal payments to the 31 states that have expanded Medicaid eligibility.
House Republican leaders asserted in a document describing their plan
that they would not “pull the rug out from anyone who received care under states’ Medicaid expansions.”
But Kenneth E. Raske, the president of the Greater New York Hospital Association, expressed alarm, saying the proposals would “put a huge amount of pressure on state budgets
and put many Americans at risk of losing health care coverage.”
Sketchy as the outline was, it envisions major changes.