Republicans again failed to cancel Obamacare

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One of the plans to repeal and replace the law on health Obamacareover which republican senators worked For several months, I could not get the necessary votes for 60 to approve it.

According to the data "VOA“, only 43 senators voted for it, 57 legislators were against it. Nine Republicans voted against the bill.

The plan envisioned large cuts to the low-income health care program. Medicaid and reducing subsidies to low-income people who they received according to Obamacareto make it easier for them to purchase medical insurance.

But this is only the first of many alleged votes on the abolition or amendment of elements of the Law on Accessible Health Care, passed with the active support of President Barack Obama.

The Affordable Healthcare Act was passed without a single Republican vote in the 2010 year, when Democrats controlled the Congress. Democrats represented it as a program that helped millions of people get health insurance, forbade insurance companies to deny services due to diseases already existing with the insured, and also obliged them to include certain services in their plans.

While Obama was in the White House, Republicans proposed numerous bills to abolish this program, but they all demanded the signature of Obama himself, who told members of Congress that if they sent him a bill that would improve the Affordable Health Care Act or the health care system, he will support him.

Among the Republicans who opposed the proposed bills, there are those who consider these initiatives insufficiently radical in repealing the existing law. Others say that the proposed amendments too seriously limit insurance under the program Medicaid - government program of medical care for the poor.

The Congressional Budget Office has calculated that in the event of cancellation Obamacare without the adoption of a new law, next year 17 will be lost to millions of Americans, and by the year of 2026 there will be 32 million. If the republican option is adopted with a replacement, 22 million people will lose insurance within ten years, but this plan will save the government 420 billions of dollars.

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