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U.S. Senate Republicans on Monday released changes to their healthcare bill, including a six-month waiting period for people who have let their insurance coverage lapse for over 63 days — about two months — and want to get insured again.
The change appeared aimed at deterring people from dropping health insurance to begin with, a concern that arose in part because the bill cancels the monetary penalty for being uninsured under the current law, known commonly as Obamacare.
Senate leaders want to hold a vote on the bill before the July 4 recess that starts at the end of this week.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said in a statement that it will release a report estimating the bill’s effects on Monday afternoon.
A spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell would not comment on whether votes on whatever bill is finally crafted would be held in the full Senate on Thursday, as originally anticipated.
At least four conservative Republicans have expressed opposition to the draft legislation, saying it does not go far enough in repealing former President Barack Obama’s health-care law known as Obamacare.
Meanwhile, some moderate Republicans have either withheld judgment or expressed doubts about replacing Obamacare with legislation that is similar to a health care measure narrowly passed by the House of Representatives last month.
That measure initially was supported by President Donald Trump, who later was reported to have described it as “mean.”
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Article source: http://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/26/us-senate-republicans-to-issue-revised-health-care-bill-senate-aide.html