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At least six GOP senators are now opposed to the bill and three have said they would block it on the procedural vote. But Senate leaders were also pleasantly surprised by the amount of savings that can go toward wooing reluctant colleagues.
President Donald Trump blasted the report, citing its projections on the Affordable Care Act. Meanwhile, he's continuing his efforts to get the Senate bill passed.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office also found that average premiums for plans for single individuals would be about 20 percent higher in 2018 than under current law. Media outlets offer a look at what's in the report.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
This estimate is slightly lower than the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office projected for the House-passed American Health Care Act.
A selection of opinions on health care from around the country.
Editorial and opinion writers examine how the health policies currently being debated will affect people who gained coverage under the Affordable Care Act as well as how forces within the health insurance marketplace would be altered by the Republicans' plan and how vulnerable populations could be impacted.
Opinion writers offer their thoughts on the high political stakes in play regarding the legislation that the Senate Republican leadership has named The Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017. But will it be better?
Editorial pages across the country detail how their states and jurisdictions would be hit by the proposed cuts to this program.
Editorial writers take hard-line positions on how the pending GOP repeal-and-replace plans would reduce funding for the low-income health insurance program and change its structure.
Each week, KHN compiles a selection of recently released health policy studies and briefs.
Media outlets report on news from Tennessee, California, Massachusetts, Texas, Connecticut, Virginia, Ohio, Florida, Wisconsin and Colorado.
"You don't die of Alzheimer's," Greg O'Brien says. "You die of everything else. But first, you live with it all." In other public health news: strokes, racial disparity in transplants, managing chronic diseases, toilet-training newborns, obesity and more.
While the problem isn’t new, the pace of reported incidents has certainly picked up — and it’s not clear why.
"I think we also want to start imagining the next era of a safety net, where people can do the work they enjoy and need to do, and can get the benefits that they need," says Sara Horowitz, executive director of the Freelancers Union.
The letter from the Congressional HIV/AIDS Caucus follows the resignation of the six members of a presidential advisory group and concerns about administration policies to fight the disease and help people with it. Also in the news, President Donald Trump signed a law to make it easier to remove employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon cited the fact that the bill doesn't address issues such as financing, delivery of care, cost controls, or the realities of needed action by the Trump administration.
Media outlets report on reactions to the newly unveiled legislation.
There are fears that the Medicaid cuts proposed in the GOP bill will make the already raging opioid epidemic worse.
The conservative group, Americans for Prosperity, says the proposed measure doesn't go far enough.
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