Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana have revised their draft of the Senate Republican plan to repeal Obamacare. The draft includes new funding provisions and regulatory changes aimed at securing support from GOP senators who have opposed or expressed concerns with the bill. More changes aimed at undecided senators could come — but with three GOP senators now against the bill, the road to repeal is looking less likely.

The GOP Sweetheart Deals

There are six GOP senators being heavily courted who said they don't support or are undecided about the bill. Republicans need 50 votes to pass the plan and can’t afford to lose the support of three GOP senators. Three senators have now said they won’t support the bill, but they could change their minds.

Five they’re trying to flip

Sens. Rand Paul, John McCain and Susan Collins said they won't vote for the bill, but additional funding for Kentucky and Arizona was added over the weekend in the hopes of winning them over. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas also doesn’t support the bill and indicated fellow conservative Mike Lee of Utah might also oppose it.

Paul

(R-Ky.) 4% increase in funding for Kentucky McCain

(R-Ariz.) 14% increase in funding for Arizona Collins

(R-Maine) No increased funding for Maine Cruz

(R-Texas) No increased funding for Texas Lee

(R-Utah) No increased funding for Utah

No additional funding was allocated for Texas or Utah, but the revised bill does make it easier for states to eliminate Obamacare insurance regulations, which would allow health plans to offer catastrophic insurance policies, a provision Cruz and other conservative Republicans strongly support. No concessions were made for Maine, as securing Collins’s vote was thought unlikely.

One ? they’re trying to appease

Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska voted against the GOP’s previous three attempts to repeal Obamacare and says she is still undecided. Murkowski is a pivotal vote to get the bill through Congress — a 3 percent federal funding boost for Alaska was included in the latest Graham-Cassidy draft.

Murkowski

(R-Alaska) 3% increase in funding for Alaska

How Graham-Cassidy would alter federal funding The bill would overhaul or eliminate major sections of the health care law, including its subsidized insurance coverage and Medicaid expansion. Instead, states would receive block grants, or a lump sum of money from the federal government, which they could use largely as they see fit.

But states would receive less funding Avalere Health, a health consulting firm, released estimates of how federal funding would change if the bill became law. The analysis found federal funding to states would be reduced by $120 billion from 2020 to 2026. States that expanded Medicaid would be hardest hit, with California losing $78 billion in funding.

But Republicans are up against a tight deadline. Their budget reconciliation bill, which allows them to overhaul Obamacare with a simple majority, expires on Sept. 30. The urgency of the deadline could work to Graham’s and Cassidy’s advantage, however, by spurring hesitant Republicans to seize what may be their last opportunity to deliver on their seven-year promise to repeal Obamacare.