Two House committees ― Energy and Commerce, and Ways and Means ― spent the day debating complementary portions of the American Health Care Act, the long-awaited bill to repeal and “replace” the 2010 health care law. The proceedings themselves moved at a typically sluggish pace, as lawmakers re-litigated the Affordable Care Act, traded barbs about the GOP bill, and squabbled about procedure. Afterward, legislation would go to the House Budget Committee and then finally to the House as a whole. The ratings agency Standard & Poor’s has already said it estimates 6 million to 10 million people would become uninsured if GOP legislation were to become law. As proof, he noted that the very same committee, Ways and Means, had marked up health care legislation without a full CBO projection, relying instead on a letter from the agency’s director.

Source: Huffington Post March 09, 2017 02:52 UTC