“After years of howling at the moon about Democrats rushing through the Affordable Care Act — the mantra they said over
and over and over again on the floor here and in the House, ‘read the bill’ — Republicans are having committee votes two days after the bill is released,” Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader, said on the Senate floor.
Health Bill Faces Revolt From Conservative Forces -
By JENNIFER STEINHAUERMARCH 7, 2017
WASHINGTON — After seven years of waiting longingly to annul President Barack Obama’s signature health care law, Republican leaders on Tuesday faced a sudden revolt from the right
that threatened their proposal to remake the American health care system.
House Republicans were rushing the legislation through two powerful committees — Ways and Means, and Energy and Commerce — with the hope of a full House vote next week, an extraordinarily compressed time frame considering
that the legislation affects many parts of the United States economy and could alter the health care of millions of Americans.
This bill does not do that.”
The Republican bill would scrap the mandated coverage in the Affordable Care Act in favor of tax incentives to coax people to purchase health care.
In an interview with a radio station on Tuesday, Senator Roy Blunt, Republican of Missouri, said, “What I don’t like is it may not be a plan
that gets a majority of votes and lets us move on, because I think we can’t stay where we are with the plan we’ve got now.”
The response from insurers was largely muted on Tuesday.