The move — by Senate Health Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), the committee’s senior Democrat — does not ensure the end of the GOP’s long Obamacare repeal campaign. Now Trump administration officials are threatening to cut off the payments, a threat the White House renewed after last week’s Senate votes. Many GOP lawmakers continue to be interested in rolling back Obamacare and dramatically cutting funding for healthcare safety net programs such as Medicaid. warned that many Republicans are unlikely to vote for a bill that simply commits more federal money to Obamacare insurance markets. Polls indicate that Americans now hold congressional Republicans and the Trump administration responsible for the fate of the nation’s healthcare system, including the insurance marketplaces.

Source: Los Angeles Times August 01, 2017 14:23 UTC