コンスタンス・マリーさんのインスタグラム写真 - (コンスタンス・マリーInstagram)「Maybe, just maybe, At THIS point, #Improving #Obamacare would be better?! #Just sayin' #Repost @huffpost (@get_repost) ・・・ Done. For now. Two conservative senators on Monday evening announced their opposition to the Senate Republican health care bill, dealing a serious and possibly crippling blow to the GOP’s effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Sens. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) announced Monday they intended to vote no on the “motion to proceed” ― a procedural step necessary to begin formal debate on legislation and, eventually, to pass it. “There are serious problems with Obamacare, and my goal remains what it has been for a long time: to repeal and replace it,” Moran said in a statement. “This closed-door process has yielded the [Better Care Reconciliation Act], which fails to repeal the Affordable Care Act or address healthcare’s rising costs. For the same reasons I could not support the previous version of this bill, I cannot support this one.” “We should not put our stamp of approval on bad policy,” he added. Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said Thursday they wouldn’t vote for the bill in its current form, and more than a half-dozen other Republicans have said they have “serious concerns.” The Senate can afford to lose only two Republican votes on the bill, presuming that all Democrats will vote against it. With four GOP senators now joining all Democrats in opposition, Republicans, who have 52 seats in the upper chamber, are at least two votes short of the 50 needed to begin debate and then pass the bill ― halting, at least temporarily, their plans to pass legislation. Lee said that he could not support the GOP bill, at least in its present form, because it did not do enough to dismantle the Affordable Care Act’s regulations on health insurance ― and because, in the process of modifying the bill, Senate leaders had decided to retain some of the new taxes that the 2010 health care law put in place. “In addition to not repealing all of the Obamacare taxes, it doesn’t go far enough in lowering premiums for middle class families; nor does it create enough free space from the most costly Obamacare regulations,” he sa」7月18日 13時08分