Health insurance

The Senate rejected a simple repeal of the ACA on Wednesday, still in the early stages of an unpredictable floor debate on healthcare amid significant doubts that Republicans can muster the 50 votes needed to pass any kind of bill.

GOP leaders will hold votes on a slew of different health bills to see how close they can get to passing something.

The Senate rejected Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s healthcare proposal late Tuesday at the start of several days of debate with no clear idea of what ACA-replacement plan the senators will ultimately be asked to pass.

Senate Republicans agreed to begin floor debate on healthcare legislation, a hard-fought step amid uncertainty about exactly what plan senators will ultimately be asked to vote on.

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Next week could be a key test over whether Republicans have any chance at delivering on their seven years of promises of repealing and replacing the ACA.

Amount patients would have to pay up front for their own care would violate maximums set in U.S. law.

A Republican fallback plan to repeal all of the ACA without a replacement health program would lead to 32 million more people uninsured than under current law.

McConnell’s day-old proposal to simply repeal the ACA appears to already be dead as three Republican senators, such as Maine's Susan Collins, say they'll oppose the measure.

Proposed plan would add $70 billion to stabilize insurance exchanges over the next decade.

The new measure, to be released to all Senate Republicans Thursday, also discards earlier plans to repeal three Obamacare taxes on the wealthy.

Republicans are considering retaining Obamacare’s 3.8 percent tax on net investment income for people who earn more than $200,000 and couples over $250,000.

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The plan includes $15 billion a year in market-stabilizing funds over the next two years and $10 billion a year in 2020 and 2021, according to a person familiar with the plan.

The proposal would continue to provide cost-sharing subsidies to insurers to cover costs of low-income Americans taking part in Obamacare’s insurance exchanges at least through 2019.

Senators say the measure envisions a more gradual transition away from the ACA than the House-passed version.

The company plans to enter Tennessee in 2018 despite turmoil around the Affordable Care Act's exchanges.

Still, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he expects to provide a ‘discussion draft’ of the measure Thursday and that it likely will go to the floor for a vote next week.

Republican leaders plan to brief rank-and-file members on the details of their proposal this week, including changes to tax credits and other provisions.

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