The fate of America ’s health care system on Thursday came down to four votes : 217 House Republicans to repeal the Affordable Care Act and put back it with the latest interpretation of the much - maligned American Health Care Act , while 213 vote against it . After public yell against the neb , in the conclusion , twenty Republicans vote against it , but those vote were not quite enough to stop the bill from moving on to the Senate .
The first version of the AHCA fail last month because of opposition from both temperate Republicans and the far - right Freedom Caucus . In response , the GOP leaders made the throwaway worse in hopes of attracting those far - right field votes . For one , the bill gut the ACA ’s rule that country call for insurance policy companies to cover people with preexisting condition . This was a primal tenet of the ACA that consecrate millions of in high spirits - peril patient access to health tending at a fairish cost . Now for one thousand thousand of people , access to wellness tending is now at stakes .
Instead , the account sets aside $ 8 billion over five years to cover the gamy - danger pool include those with preexist condition . That little amount of money , though , is in no way carry to make up for the remainder .
This is the supplying of the new health care bill that has attracted the most attention — and fury . When the Congressional Budget Office assessed the last version of the bill , it estimated that 24 million Americans would lose their health insurance coverage . Though the bill has since changed , those numbers are likely to be similar .
Contact your repp – now ! Tell them to vote NO on#ACAreplacement . Millions would lose insurance coverage if passed.https://t.co/rWMkdmS4oe#AHCApic.twitter.com/j9ejFBuybb
— AMA ( @AmerMedicalAssn)May 4 , 2017
The neb still demand to lapse the Senate . From there , the Senate could either approve it , turn down it , or change it and kick it back to the House . Any agency you slit it though , today marks a gargantuan footstep in the wrong counsel for the American healthcare system of rules .
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