The Senate Republicans unveiled the changes of Friday evening in health care policies in the tax legislation they made to win their party and adopt budgetary rules.
The changes were made public around midnight, and the long voting process for the bill could start on Saturday. Republicans use a budgetary process called reconciliation which allows them to adopt the bill without democratic support. But there is a special process to vote on bills on budget reconciliation which can take days to spend.
Votes and changes to the legislators in the coming days could change the landscape of patients and health care providers who count on Medicaid, with millions that should lose coverage and huge reductions in federal funding which otherwise have gone to hospitals and other suppliers, according to CBO estimates.
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