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FILE - In this March 21, 2017 file photo, Sen. Michael S. Lee, R-Utah speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Lee has become the 5th GOP senator to oppose starting health care bill debate in latest blow to party leaders. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Lee)

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FILE - In this June 22, 2017, file photo, Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., walks through a group of reporters after Republicans released their long-awaited bill to scuttle much of President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act at the Capitol in Washington. Conservatives and liberals alike in Wisconsin both see hope in Johnson's steadfast refusal to back the current version of the GOP Senate health care bill. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

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FILE - In this Tuesday, June 20, 2017 file photo, Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, pauses for a reporter's question as he arrives at a closed-door GOP strategy session on the Republican health care overhaul with Vice President Mike Pence, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and others, at the Capitol in Washington. Days after it's release, Portman faces intense pressure back home to oppose the Senate’s GOP health care bill. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

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FILE - In this Thursday, Dec.18, 2014, file photograph, scientist Christopher Kistler checks on experiments in AMBR250 bio-reactors in a laboratory at the Merck company facilities in Kenilworth, N.J. The bio-reactors allow a large number of experiments to be done in the lab at the same time. On Tuesday, June 27, 2017, Merck & Co. said a new type of cholesterol drug, in testing for many years, reduced heart attacks, deaths and other complications of heart disease in a huge late-stage study. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., center, joined by Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., right, and Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., left, speaks during a new conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, June 26, 2017, about the Senate Republicans health care bill. Senate Republicans unveil a revised health care bill in hopes of securing support from wavering GOP lawmakers, including one who calls the drive to whip his party's bill through the Senate this week "a little offensive." (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn of Texas, pauses as he speaks to reporters outside his office on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, June 26, 2017. Senate Republicans unveil a revised health care bill in hopes of securing support from wavering GOP lawmakers, including one who calls the drive to whip his party's bill through the Senate this week "a little offensive." (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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Mwigulu Matonange examines his prosthetic limb after eating watermelon and cake for dessert at a friend's home, Sunday, June 4, 2017, in Staten Island, N.Y. Matonange lost limbs to attackers who believe body parts from albinos hold magical powers. He was on a return trip to New York to be refitted for new prostheses for his growing body. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

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Baraka Cosmas height is measured at Shriners Hospital for Children in Philadelphia, Monday, March 27, 2017. The children from Tanzania with the hereditary condition of albinism are in the U.S. to receive free surgery and prostheses at the hospital. The children were attacked and dismembered in the belief that their body parts will bring wealth. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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Baraka Cosmas, from left, Pendo Sengerema, Emmanuel Festo, and Mwigulu Matonange all jet-lagged from their travel to the United States rest as they wait to register at Shriners Hospital for Children in Philadelphia, Monday, March 27, 2017. The children from Tanzania with the hereditary condition of albinism are in the U.S. to receive free surgery and prostheses at the hospital. The children were attacked and dismembered in the belief that their body parts will bring wealth. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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A family strolls the scenic overlook in Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park. (Associated Press)

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Desiree Hennessy cries during the Utah Patients Coalition news conference at the Utah State Capitol Monday, June 26, 2017, in Salt Lake City. A group of activists and Utah residents with chronic conditions has launched a ballot initiative to ask voters next year to pass a broad medical marijuana law. Her adopted son Hestevan has Cerebral Palsy and suffers from chronic nerve pain, seizure disorder, and life threatening complications from his medication. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

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Davis Cromar, center, holds his son Holden, 10, who suffers from epilepsy, while standing with other patients, caregivers and supporters during the Utah Patients Coalition news conference Monday, June 26, 2017, in Salt Lake City. A group of activists and Utah residents with chronic conditions has launched a ballot initiative to ask voters next year to pass a broad medical marijuana law. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

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Desiree Hennessy cries during the Utah Patients Coalition news conference at the Utah State Capitol Monday, June 26, 2017, in Salt Lake City. A group of activists and Utah residents with chronic conditions has launched a ballot initiative to ask voters next year to pass a broad medical marijuana law. Her adopted son Hestevan has Cerebral Palsy and suffers from chronic nerve pain, seizure disorder, and life threatening complications from his medication. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

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Martin Shkreli, center, the former pharmaceutical CEO who became a pariah after raising the cost of a life-saving drug 5,000 percent, is the focus of media attention as he arrives at federal court in the Brooklyn borough of New York, for jury selection in his trial. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

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Former Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli arrives to federal court in New York, Monday, June 26, 2017. Even with his federal securities fraud trial set to begin Monday, Shkreli has blatantly defied his attorneys' advice to lay low. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

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Martin Shkreli, the former pharmaceutical CEO who became a pariah after raising the cost of a life-saving drug 5,000 percent, arrives at federal court in the Brooklyn borough of New York for jury selection in his trial. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

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FILE - In this June 22, 2017 file photo, President Donald Trump speaks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. President Donald Trump is not known for plunging into the details of complex policy issues, and health care is no exception. Since his campaign days, Trump has addressed health care in broad, aspirational strokes. Nonetheless he made some clear promises along the way. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

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Top Democrats are campaigning hard against the American Healthcare Act and they're following a strategic and emotional script. (Associated Press)

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Sen. Dean Heller, Nevada Republican, announced Friday that he would vote no on his party leadership's health care bill unless changes are made. He said his state could not absorb Medicaid cuts in the plan. (Associated Press)

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Cleveland Indians' Jose Ramirez hits a double in the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Minnesota Twins, Sunday, June 25, 2017, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)