Senate Republicans unveiled late Friday adjustments to well being care insurance policies in tax laws that they made to win over holdouts of their celebration and go muster with funds guidelines.
The adjustments had been made public round midnight, and the lengthy voting course of for the invoice might begin on Saturday. Republicans are utilizing a funds course of referred to as reconciliation that enables them to go the invoice with out Democratic assist. However there’s a particular course of for voting on funds reconciliation payments that may take days to get by way of.
Lawmakers’ votes and amendments over the approaching days might change the panorama for sufferers and well being care suppliers who depend on Medicaid, with thousands and thousands anticipated to lose protection and big cuts to federal funding that in any other case would have gone to hospitals and different suppliers, in response to CBO estimates.
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