AARP Mobilizes Against GOP Health Plan

House leaders discussed other amendments calibrated to round up votes and scheduled a showdown vote Thursday.

"You're looking at some of the top conservatives in the House", he said.

"And we think the courts are not going to stop him from doing that?"

But the bill's fate in the Senate remains uncertain. Sen. The wealthy would benefit from a $600 billion tax cut over the same period because they would not be subject to taxes that support the subsidies.

NPR and its member stations has been tracking where members of Congress stand on the health care bill, and several of those in the meeting had already indicated they would vote for it.

Thursday will mark the seventh anniversary of when Obama signed his health overhaul into law, one of his milestone domestic achievements enacted over unanimous GOP opposition. Experts said the undercuts Republican claims that the health law's insurance markets are teetering toward collapse, which they say makes repealing the law crucial. Building in more incentives for younger, healthier people to buy policies simpler than Obamacare's wouldn't only leave more Americans insured. It would cut Medicaid, repeal the law's tax increases on higher earning Americans and require 30% higher premiums for consumers who let coverage lapse. After the session, lawmakers who were there said the current bill would be changed to give states options to further limit Medicaid enrollment, a move that will help secure their backing. A share of that would come from Ryan's proposal to roll back Medicaid expansion and turn the program into block grants for states. Thirty-one states have enlarged their Medicaid rolls under the law.

GOP leaders may have hoped their plan would float to President Trump's desk as a fait accompli. This is definitely good news for House GOP leaders - as I've been arguing, the best way Trump can help get the bill over the finish line is by being a cheerleader for it, which means not criticizing it or demanding changes.

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"We need to make sure the tax credits are a closer approximation to the cost of health care insurance in the different age bands, so there could be some adjustments there", Rep. Bill Flores (R-Texas) told The Hill.

"I'm 100 percent behind this", Trump told reporters after the meeting.

Trymp said the unspecified changes were "frankly very little". "As somebody who was uninsured in my childhood because of a preexisting health condition, this is a battle that I've taken on for many years", says Baldwin. Centrists remained wary of yanking constituents from coverage. "This is going to be fantastic", he said.

Republicans in the House of Representatives presented a bill called the American Health Care Act to the Congressional Budget Office, a nonpartisan, independent agency that rates the financial feasibility of bills that are to be put to a vote in the two houses of Congress.

Specifically, conservatives want Obamacare's expansion of Medicaid to end sooner than proposed in the Ryan plan, and want to introduce Medicaid work requirements for able-bodied adults without children. Given the 52-48 majority Republicans hold, they can not afford to lose more than two votes.

It is signed by Ohio Gov. John Kasich, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval and Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson.