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In this Monday, June 26, 2017 photo, Donna Shanklin-Henderson, right, a teacher with Houston Independent School District's Community Services, looks up information about insects with Zechariah, 10, during a tutoring session at an extended stay hotel, in Houston. Zechariah, who is receiving treatment at a hospital in the Texas Medical Center, has a rare genetic disorder called Cystinosis, that affects the kidneys and other organs. He has been falling behind other students his age because of difficulties associated with his illness. (Jon Shapley/Houston Chronicle via AP)
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White House legislative director Marc Short takes a question from the media about the GOP Senate healthcare bill during the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, July 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, wants to take up the House-passed health care bill Tuesday, setting the stage for amendments and final passage before Congress leaves for its August recess. (Associated Press/File)
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In this March 4, 2015 image from video, Michael Morris discusses his family's experience with purchasing insurance under the Affordable Care Act, in Concord, N.H. . Since then, his family has moved from a marketplace plan to Medicaid but hopes to return to an ACA plan in 2018. He says it's irresponsible of Republicans in Congress to say they should repeal the law and worry about replacing it later. (AP Photo/Holly Ramer)
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In this March 4, 2015 image from video, Deborah deMoulpied discusses her relief about obtaining insurance under the Affordable Care Act Hampshire in in Concord, N.H. The former home goods store owner said in July 23017 that she remains concerned about possibly losing her insurance and has cut back on her spending and started thinking about what medical tests and treatments should could go without if that happens. (AP Photo/Holly Ramer)
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In this July 14 2017 photo, Jonathan Nickell checks his iPad while waiting for his wife to have surgery at the St. Joseph Mount Sterling hospital in Mount Sterling, Ky. Nickell said rural hospitals are essential to their community. Many rural hospitals have struggled financially because they serve large populations of poor people who don't have insurance. (AP Photo/Adam Beam)
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FILE - In this Nov. 20, 2014 file photo, Dr. Carmen A. Puliafito, the dean of the University of Southern California medical school, arrives at the Changing Lives And Creating Cures Gala in Beverly Hills, Calif. USC President C.L. Max Nikias says officials will "examine and address" a newspaper report that the Puliafito, who recently resigned as dean of the medical school, abused drugs and associated with criminals. (Photo by Tonya Wise/Invision/AP, File)
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In this Tuesday, July 18, 2017, photo, Matt Mason, 48, stands on the porch of his Omaha, Neb., home. Mason says the Affordable Care Act led to a huge improvement in covering the costs of treating his diabetes. Before the ACA, he had to rely on state-subsidized coverage and buy a separate policy for his wife and two children. Mason is not a defender of the ACA just for the sake of it, he says he is fine with a health program that's not the ACA, as long as it makes sense. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
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In this Tuesday, July 18, 2017, photo, Matt Mason, 48, plays with his dog Max on the porch of his Omaha, Neb., home. Mason says the Affordable Care Act led to a huge improvement in covering the costs of treating his diabetes. Before the ACA, he had to rely on state-subsidized coverage and buy a separate policy for his wife and two children. Mason is not a defender of the ACA just for the sake of it, he says he is fine with a health program that's not the ACA, as long as it makes sense. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
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In this photo taken Wednesday, July 5, 2017, Dr. Lidiia Podkopaieva speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at her clinic in Kiev, Ukraine. Podkopaieva's clinic was one of many institutions disrupted by June 27 cyberattack which paralysed computers in Ukraine and across the globe. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
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In this photo taken Wednesday, July 5, 2017, patients stand at the reception in a private clinic in Kiev, Ukraine. The clinic was one of many institutions disrupted by June 27 cyberattack which paralysed computers in Ukraine and across the globe. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
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In this July 14, 2017, photo, a flamingo chick sits among adult ones at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans. Zoo workers knew when it hatched July 4. They replace flamingo eggs with plaster-filled eggs to keep them from falling out of the nests when their active parents move around, and fertile eggs stay in an incubator until they're about to hatch. Then they're returned to the nest. (Audubon Nature Institute via AP)
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In this July 14, 2017, photo, a flamingo chick bites an adult one's beak at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans. Zoo workers knew when it hatched July 4. They replace flamingo eggs with plaster-filled eggs to keep them from falling out of the nests when their active parents move around, and fertile eggs stay in an incubator until they're about to hatch. Then they're returned to the nest. (Audubon Nature Institute via AP)
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In this July 26, 2016, photo taken by Alison Chandra, Chandra's son, Ethan, 3, of Middlesex, N.J., poses for a photo in Middlesex. Ethan suffers from heterotaxy syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that causes organs to form incorrectly or in the wrong place. Their story drew attention in June 2017 when Chandra shared a photo of a hospital bill for Ethan's latest heart surgery. The charges added up to more than $230,000 but Chandra owed only $500 after insurance. (Alison Chandra via AP)
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FILE - In this May 4, 2017, file photo, Jake Martinez, who has epilepsy, looks on as he stands next to his medication at his home in Murray, Utah. While Republicans in Congress failed this week to craft a new health care plan, they did succeed in shaking the confidence of those who rely on the act the most. Obamacare, he said, made it possible to get affordable coverage for himself, his wife and their three children. “If I can’t treat my epilepsy, I can’t drive, I can’t go to work. Things that are day-to-day activities become health hazards,” Martinez said. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
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In this July 26, 2016, photo taken by Zoe Chandra, Alison Chandra and her son, Ethan, 3, both of Middlesex, N.J., pose for a photo in Middlesex. Ethan suffers from heterotaxy syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that causes organs to form incorrectly or in the wrong place. Their story drew attention in June 2017 when Chandra shared a photo of a hospital bill for Ethan's latest heart surgery. The charges added up to more than $230,000 but Chandra owed only $500 after insurance. (Zoe Chandra via AP)
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In this photo taken July 12, 2017, Cynthia Guzman plays dominoes at her home in Napa, Calif. Guzman underwent a special kind of PET scan that can detect a hallmark of Alzheimer’s and learned she didn’t have that disease as doctors originally thought, but a different form of dementia. New research suggests those scans may lead to changes in care for people with memory problems that are hard to diagnose. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
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In this photo taken July 12, 2017, Cynthia Guzman walks through a garden outside her home in Napa, Calif. Guzman underwent a special kind of PET scan that can detect a hallmark of Alzheimer’s and learned she didn’t have that disease as doctors originally thought, but a different form of dementia. New research suggests those scans may lead to changes in care for people with memory problems that are hard to diagnose. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
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Maya Rockeymoore, the wife of U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings, says she is "strongly considering" running for governor of Maryland during an interview in Oxon Hill, Md., on Tuesday, July 18, 2017. Rockeymoore, a Democrat, told The Associated Press Tuesday that the health care debate in Washington has shown that Republicans in the nation's capital are not considering the needs of women, children and minorities. (AP Photo/Brian Witte)
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Smoke hangs over Lake Kalamalka in Vernon, British Columbia, Monday, July 17, 2017. The Okanagan area is blanketed with smoke from the wildfires burning in the interior of the province. (Jeff Bassett/The Canadian Press via AP)
