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Of next week. a discussion draft of the bill is reported to include deep cuts to federal medicaid funding. a repeal of all aca taxes, except on my cost cadillac plans, and it eliminates all funding for planned parenthood. a difference from the house bill is it ties federal insurance subsidies to income, not to age. it provides more gradual cuts than the house bill while offering deeper long-term medicaid cuts, and unlike the house, it will let federally subsidized health plans cover abortions. last night at a rally packed with thousands of people in see cedar rapids, iowa, president trump said...

Post," a discussion draft circulated yesterday amongst aides and lobbyists. republicans will receive the legislation in a meeting this morning at 9:30 a.m., which lindsey graham commented on yesterday. >> senator graham, do you have any insight into the health care bill right now? >> no, i'll see it, we'll know if it's a boy or a girl tomorrow about 9:30. >> okay. kasie hunt, this is your beat. what the heck is going on on capitol hill? what are people saying? >> well, it's actually, honestly, a lot tougher to answer those questions because of the way this process has been going -- >> explain ...

Washington and garrett, what's republican leadership going to try to do to get this passed? >> well, kelly, this really boils down to some simple math. republicans hold 52 seats in the senate and they need 50 votes for this to pass. five senators have already said they cannot support the current version of the healthcare bill. so senate majority leader mcconnell strategy here is two parts, win back most of those no votes and avoid losing any other republicans. neither of those will be an easy task though. to win back the no votes, g.o.p. leadership is seeing what changes they can make to the b...

Health care draft. policies contained in the discussion draft will repealed the repeal the individual mandates so americans are no longer forced to buy insurance they don't need or can't afford. we will repeal the employer mandate so americans no longer see their hours of take-home pay cut by employers because of it. we agreed on the need to them prove the affordability and policies contained in the discussion draft. we will eliminate costly obamacare taxes that are passed on to consumers so we can put downward pressure on premiums, expand tax-free health savings account and employ targeted ta...

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