Today at the spotlight: Vote on Healthcare reform in USA. Stock market expected to be volatile

Attention of traders and investors will be again on the vote of the bill for health care reform, a vote which was canceled yesterday due to lack of support. Whether Trump will be able to muster enough support in the vote later in the day to pass a bill to reduce prices Obamacare, one of its key promises in the campaign. From even depend plan for tax cuts and spending in infrastructure, all of which shares rose after his election.

President Trump made his final offer yesterday in attempt to get the approval of both Republican and Liberal parties. Still no answer from the Congress.

Debates are about to start at 15:00 GMT+2, as voting is expected to take place later today with no exact time set.

Trump's plan faces resistance from some conservative Republicans who view it as too similar to Obamacare, and from moderates concerned it will hurt some voters.

With global equities buffeted by risk aversion this week -Wall Street on Tuesday suffered its worst day since Trump's election - the dollar has struggled notably against the yen, often sought by investors due to its perceived safe-haven status in times of market tumult.

So far, about a dozen members of the Freedom Caucus have come around to embrace the bill. The group claims to have roughly 40 members, but doesn’t publish an official roster. Whether any of the Freedom Caucus’s remaining holdouts will drop their opposition to the health-care measure before Thursday’s vote will determine the outcome. Those holdouts are being cheered on by several Senate conservatives, including Rand Paul of Kentucky and Mike Lee of Utah. Meadows was singled out as a holdout by Trump during a closed-door meeting with House Republicans Tuesday morning. Representative Richard Hudson, a Republican from North Carolina, said the Freedom Caucus will damage itself if it ends up blocking the measure, though he predicts most members eventually will come on board.

Yet as Trump and Ryan pick up conservative members with some of the potential changes, they risk losing moderates.

Republican Representative Charlie Dent of Pennsylvania, leader of the moderate Tuesday Group in the House, reiterated Thursday morning that he would oppose the bill.

"I just feel this bill misses the mark,” Dent told MSNBC in an interview. Dent issued a statement Wednesday saying he believes the bill “will lead to the loss of coverage and make insurance unaffordable for too many Americans, particularly for low-to-moderate income and older individuals.” Republican Representative Jaime Herrera Beutler of Washington also came out Thursday against the bill. The list of GOP defections also includes Staten Island’s Dan Donovan, as well as southern New Jersey’s Frank LoBiondo, Iowa’s David Young and Florida’s Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, none of whom are members of the Freedom Caucus Meadows and other conservative Freedom Caucus members have been demanding changes to the essential benefits portion of the Affordable Care Act, which requires insurers to cover 10 categories of services. Those services include hospitalization, ambulance services, maternity care, pediatric services, mental health and substance abuse treatment, prescription drugs, rehabilitative care and laboratory services. The goal of limiting the required essential health benefits would be to bring down health insurance premiums. Freedom Caucus founder Representative Jim Jordan, the Ohio Republican, told Fox News Thursday that members haven’t been shown any amendments or agreements in writing yet. “We want to see the language first”, and make sure “it does what needs to be done.”

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