“After years of howling at the moon about Democrats rushing through the Affordable Care Act — the mantra they said over<br />and over and over again on the floor here and in the House, ‘read the bill’ — Republicans are having committee votes two days after the bill is released,” Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader, said on the Senate floor.<br />Health Bill Faces Revolt From Conservative Forces -<br />By JENNIFER STEINHAUERMARCH 7, 2017<br />WASHINGTON — After seven years of waiting longingly to annul President Barack Obama’s signature health care law, Republican leaders on Tuesday faced a sudden revolt from the right<br />that threatened their proposal to remake the American health care system.<br />House Republicans were rushing the legislation through two powerful committees — Ways and Means, and Energy and Commerce — with the hope of a full House vote next week, an extraordinarily compressed time frame considering<br />that the legislation affects many parts of the United States economy and could alter the health care of millions of Americans.<br />This bill does not do that.”<br />The Republican bill would scrap the mandated coverage in the Affordable Care Act in favor of tax incentives to coax people to purchase health care.<br />In an interview with a radio station on Tuesday, Senator Roy Blunt, Republican of Missouri, said, “What I don’t like is it may not be a plan<br />that gets a majority of votes and lets us move on, because I think we can’t stay where we are with the plan we’ve got now.”<br />The response from insurers was largely muted on Tuesday.
