6 June 2017 - Senate Republican leaders on Tuesday unveiled a series of policy options to overhaul the nation’s health-care laws, but substantial disagreements remained even as leaders aimed to conclude their perilous and divisive effort as soon as later this month.
During a closed-door luncheon for all Republican senators, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) delivered a slide presentation offering choices on how to structure Medicaid, tax credits to help people pay for insurance, and ways to stabilise the insurance marketplace and bring down the cost of premiums, according to Republicans familiar with the closely-guarded session.
Some of the proposals in the presentation, which was the most specific health-care discussion yet among the 52-member Senate GOP Conference, would amount to a less aggressive assault on the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, than a bill that passed the House last month.