In a 55-43 vote, the Senate has confirmed Alex Azar as the new secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. President Donald Trump nominated Azar in November following the resignation of Tom Price.
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The proposed legislation seeks to provide funding for subsidies to insurance companies to support lower-income Americans and more flexibility for states without doing away with core Obamacare provisions. It drew a mixed response from Republicans.
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The CBO said that fewer people would be covered because subsidies that help people pay premiums and other financial aid would be eliminated, and individuals would no longer be required to have insurance or pay a fine.
It would authorize Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Innovation Center to give incentive payments to behavioral health care providers to adopt EHRs.
Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) who flew to Washington, DC after being diagnosed with brain cancer, sided with Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Democrats to reject the bill. His no vote took the Senate by surprise.
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In retrospect, Republicans’ inability to overhaul the health law should not come as much of a surprise. Many ACA provisions have proved popular and lack of presidential leadership on this issue has hobbled Republicans.
Without McCain, and with at least two senators opposed to the current bill, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell doesn’t have the 50 votes he needs to move the measure.
Insurers were struggling last week to grasp the implications of the legislation, studded with ambiguous language. One big takeaway: The Senate’s version of health care would undermine historical assumptions and drastically shift risk in the individual market.
Hospitals in sparsely populated areas, particularly in states that did not opt to expand the Medicaid program, have been cutting back services like maternity care or closing altogether in recent years.
CBO is expected to offer its score of the bill next week, but some Senate Republicans on Thursday said that rather than wait for that, they might ask the Department of Health and Human Services to do it instead with the hope of producing more favorable numbers.