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An amendment to add an additional $8 billion to help pay for high-risk pools for any state looking for exemptions to preexisting condition coverage swayed enough lawmakers to secure passage of the legislation, but experts say that not nearly enough money is allocated to fund health care for the sickest Americans.
The losers, on the other hand, are poor people, older Americans, state governments and hospitals.
"We want to get it right," Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said on the Senate floor. "There will be no artificial deadlines." But the GOP's narrow control of the chamber will complicate efforts to draft a bill.
Democrats started signing “Na na na na, hey, hey, hey, goodbye..." as the legislation passed the House, predicting that it could spell electoral doom for some Republicans who voted to pass the American Health Care Act.
Lawmakers did not hold back in criticizing provisions of the American Health Care Act and its passage in the House.
President Donald Trump hosted lawmakers in a Rose Garden celebration, which are usually reserved for major legislative victories.
Since the March failure to pass the Republican health plan, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) “was able to weather an extraordinary painful two months, extraordinary painful," says Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.).
Six weeks ago, House Republicans could not muster enough votes to pass their health bill and pulled it from the floor. What happened to turn that failure around? Behind-the-scenes negotiations focused on amendments that could persuade the right-wing Freedom Caucus to back the legislation. In the end, Republicans wanted to deliver a win for President Donald Trump and on their pledge to repeal Obamacare.
Media outlets offer a look at what actually is in the legislation.
At least one admits to not knowing what's in the legislation. And most say the plan is flawed. But House Republicans view their vote as a starting position to get Congress going on replacing the Affordable Care Act.
The American Health Care Act originally exempted lawmakers from its provisions, but House members voted on another piece of legislation, which nullifies that exemption.
After two false starts and weeks of compromise negotiations, House Republican leaders gathered enough votes to pass the American Health Care Act, their replacement for Obamacare. The bill passed 217-213, with 20 Republican defections. GOP House members who supported the legislation were jubilant afterwards, having followed through on a years-long campaign pledge.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
"It's going to be an unbelievable victory ... when we get it through the Senate," President Donald Trump says during a celebratory White House Rose Garden event with House Republicans.
The legislation is expected to undergo sweeping changes in the upper chamber.
Media outlets look at how different groups will fare under the Republicans' health plan.
At the end of the vote, as Republicans reached a majority, Democrats on the House floor began chanting, “Na, na, na, na … Hey, hey, hey … Goodbye.” They claim the GOP could lose seats for supporting a bill that could disrupt voters’ health care.
An amendment to add $8 billion to help fund high-risk pools swayed enough Republicans who were worried the legislation didn't offer enough protections for people with preexisting conditions.
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