In blow to moderates, Medicaid cuts remain in Senate health care bill
Source: MSNBC
All I got for now, sorry.
my bad, here's the link: http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/changes-senate-health-care-bill-coming-medicaid-cuts-remain-n782226?cidsm_npd_ms_tw_ma
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans are preparing to unveil a revised health care bill that aims to attract support from wary Republicans, but early indications suggest the proposed changes do little to address concerns about the current deep cuts to Medicaid, possibly putting the bill’s path to passage in peril.
Numerous changes have been made to the new version of the Better Care Reconciliation Act to appease both conservative and moderate Republicans as leadership searches for the 50 votes they need to pass it. In a blow to the more moderate faction, it appears the more than $700 billion worth of cuts to Medicaid will still be part of the measure, according to numerous senators describing what leadership has told them about the bill.
"My understanding is that remains the same," Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Penn., a proponent of the Medicaid cuts, of the Medicaid portion of the bill.
Things could still change as the bill’s contents are yet final and the new text is expected to be released Thursday. Still, the prospects of creating a more generous Medicaid program appear to be dim. Republican leaders have used their effort to alter the Obama-era Affordable Care Act as an opportunity to reform the entitlement program for the low-income, the disabled and the elderly.
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I have discovered that I can get links to breaking news stories faster using the link included in the news site's tweet, which is often available before they even update their website's front page! 
must be pissed that our Democratic governor Tom Wolf did the full expansion of Medicaid here in PA once Corbett lost his 2nd term (where where Corbett put in place some convoluted GOP version of "expansion"
. It's obvious he wants to kill that. And the idjits here in PA put him back into office rather than choose McGinty (despite electing 3 Democrats to statewide higher office and tilting our State Supreme Court to the Democrats during that same election). 
Here in Philly, the past couple of Presidentials have generally averaged about 5000 or so votes TOTAL for all 3rd party candidates. But in 2016, the total 3rd party vote was ~14,000.
I too am disabled and on Medicaid. Without treatment, I'll never make it. Hitler "only" killed 6 million. The Repugs want to kill 23 million. 
