Republicans have vowed for seven years to repeal and replace Obamacare, but in light of dire projections the drafted GOP healthcare bill would have on uninsurance rates and Medicaid cuts, a single Republican is publicly calling more strongly for an entirely different approach: Fix Obamacare rather than gut it and do so by working with Democrats.
The centrist Republican, Sen. Susan Collins from Maine, made the suggestion Monday on Twitter, after a Congressional Budget Office report projected that the bill, the Better Care Reconciliation Act, by 2016 would cut Medicaid by $772 billion and cause 22 million more people to become uninsured.
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