Patty Murray (Wash.), Debbie Stabenow (Mich.) and Ron Wyden (Ore.) discuss how the Republican health-care bill could affect rural Americans during a hearing on Wednesday. With the bill still officially secret on Wednesday, perhaps only a week before a possible Senate vote, they have been forced to fight against a phantom. Off Capitol Hill, leading groups that share Senate Democrats’ concerns about the GOP’s health-care ideas, acknowledge the difficulty of trying to lobby without actual Senate legislation against which to rail. Without a Senate bill, members of his group continue to express concern about key elements of the House’s American Health Care Act. [Here’s what we know about the Senate health-care bill]This week, four groups focused on public health dispatched a joint statement faulting the complete lack of detail released by Senate Republicans.

Source: Washington Post June 21, 2017 17:23 UTC