Dear Heller joins the list of four other GOP senators to oppose healthcare bill

The current draft version of Senate healthcare bill has been opposed by Nevada senator Dean Heller. With this, he has become the fifth republican to come out in opposition to the current draft version of healthcare bill.

Heller said in a statement, "I cannot support a piece of legislation that takes away insurance from tens of millions of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Nevadans."

Heller supports the expansion of Medicare that was included in the Affordable Care Act. The Nevada senator joins four other Republicans in expressing opposition to the draft bill as it is currently written.

Rand Paul of Kentucky, Ted Cruz of Texas, Mike Lee of Utah and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, oppose the current version of the bill for being too similar to Obamacare.

The draft bill was presented recently by Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell as the upper chamber’s response to the American Health Care Act, the Obamacare repeal legislation passed by the House in May.

Also, The Congressional Budget Office is expected to release its score of the bill early next week, estimating how many millions of Americans stand to lose their insurance. The score for the House bill projected that 23 million people would lose their insurance, whilst cutting the federal deficit by $119bn over a decade.