Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is unveiling the revised health care bill to GOP senators Thursday and a preliminary vote on the bill is expected next week.
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- Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is unveiling his revised health care bill to Senate Republicans today and is hoping to get enough support to win over the at least 50 of the 52 GOP senators need to pass the bill.
- This revised bill is not necessarily the final draft that will go to a vote next week, items can still be changed and lawmakers will first need to see a score from the Congressional Budget Office - which is expected on Monday. All Democratic senators are expected to vote “no”.
- McConnell presented his original draft to the Senate two weeks ago but had to cancel a planned vote after opposition from a handful of Republicans signaled that it wouldn’t pass a vote.
- The new version is not expected to have any major updates to the Medicaid provisions but may retain some of the Affordable Care Act’s taxes on the wealthy that were originally set to be repealed.
No one is talking about the things that would actually make health insurance cheaper
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