New momentum for GOP health care bill after key votes flip [View all]
Source: CNN
New momentum for GOP health care bill after key votes flip
By MJ Lee, Lauren Fox, Tami Luhby and Phil Mattingly, CNN
Updated 3:34 PM ET, Wed May 3, 2017
Trump flips lawmakers' vote on health care
Washington (CNN)An eleventh-hour deal has renewed momentum for House Republicans working to repeal and replace Obamacare, as leaders Wednesday furiously lobby undecided or skeptical lawmakers on the plan that has been teetering on the brink of collapse.
House leaders have made clear that if everything goes there way, their preference is to have a vote Thursday. But they won't call a vote unless they believe it will pass.
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The change in mood comes after GOP Reps. Fred Upton and Billy Long met with President Donald Trump at the White House and flipped their votes from "no" to "yes." Trump committed to backing an amendment spending $8 billion over five years to fund high-risk pools and go toward patients with pre-existing conditions.
The new "yes" votes mark an incremental but symbolically important victory for the White House and Republican leaders, who have been trying without success for weeks to revive a health care bill that was pulled from the House floor in March.
Other than Long and Upton, there have not been major switches from the "no" to "yes" category, but several undecided members are seemingly open to the new changes.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/02/politics/republican-health-care-bill/index.html
Someone posted about these two Reps earlier on DU.
Trump tossed them some money for an amendment.
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