Whip count: Republicans who oppose new health care bill

(CNN)Republicans are two votes away from another failure on their efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare. House leaders need 216 Republican "yes" votes to get the legislation through the House, since no Democrats are expected to support the bill. According to CNN's whip count, 21 House Republicans have said they will vote against the new version of the bill. Republicans can lose up to 22 votes and still pass their legislation. If 23 Republicans vote against it, then it would likely not be able to pass.

Another 18 Republicans have told CNN they are undecided. That's at least 39 lawmakers publicly opposed to or undecided on the bill. The following whip count continues to be updated as news develops.

They should have started repealing it piecemeal long before now. It would put the Democrats in a very difficult position to have to explain why they would vote some of the stuff in to begin with and would allow us to keep control of the narrative. Full repeal allows the narrative to be too fluid, i.e. “why do you want poor people to die?” Then we have to tick off a laundry list of things to counter the supposed “good” things in the bill. There’s nothing good, for example, about the regulations which literally outlawed lower cost healthcare plans with good benefits. Take a vote on that alone - make the Democrats defend it - bring in people to testify about how it caused their good plans to disappear and now they have to pay much more for much less coverage. Then take another vote on the record keeping requirements that small clinics and hospitals cannot afford, forcing them to shut their doors or cut back on services. Bring in people who may have lost their own community medical center. Make the Democrats debate and defend themselves on that all alone. Then the regulations forcing private practice physicians to sell out to corporations because they can’t afford to stay open with regulations - make the Democrats defend taking out small businesses and further corporatizing healthcare. Then vote on elimination of affordable child only policies. Then elimination of small nonprofit clinics who treated patients for free but can’t stay open because of the regulations. Then on the takeover of student loans taking away choice of lenders (yes, that was in the “healthcare” bill - heck, even attach a rider allowing for refinancing of student loans to really put the Dems on the defensive that actually does that vs. Warren’s imposter which was really a regulatory disaster). Defund by refund (restore the cuts made to Medicare). Repeal the death panels they claim don’t even exist. And so on, and so forth. One bill every one to two weeks with full hearings, etc. that are very narrowly focused in scope about a specific issue in order to keep complete control of the narrative and truly point out what Obamacare was all about and the devastating impact it has had. This would bury the Democrats alive...why has no one in the GOP leadership thought of this? This is not exactly something I would consider to be a complicated idea.

Has Mr. Trump ever said what he wants in a healthcare bill? Any hardball “Art of the Deal” meetings to that effect with Ryan and McConnell in the Oval Office? He was insistent that the 1st version of the AHCA be passed or he would work to “primary” people...yet this is a different bill and that still applies? He provides plenty of details in his tax reform plan but none for the AHCA bill? Looks like he just wants a “win” and not necessarily what is best for the American people?

I want to know the last time an insurance company performed c-t, wrote an rx, took a bp... insurance is not healthcare. I have been in healthcare a very long time. Truth is cut out the insurance and provide basic care directly to consumers.
All of this is just a ploy to get single payer.
I want to see this bill, or did they sign amendments in the dark. The Management amendment from the first bill... the McArthur amendment?
Why is interstate insurance in phase three?

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