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President Donald Trump congratulates House Speaker Paul Ryan at a White House celebration after the House passed the American Health Care Act on Thursday. Hospitals and doctors, among others, are criticizing the bill.

In a rare moment of unity, hospitals, doctors, health insurers and some consumer groups are urging significant changes, at minimum, to the Republican health-care bill that passed the House on Thursday, writes the New York Times.

The prospect of millions of people being unable to afford coverage if the bill becomes law led to an outcry from the health-care industry as well as consumer groups. They found an ally in some insurers, who rely heavily on Medicare and Medicaid as mainstays of their business. The bill, which is expected to undergo changes in the Senate, makes deep cuts to Medicaid.

Also read: Opinion: Republicans health-care bill would be comical if it werent so dangerous.

And: Say what? Trump praises Australias universal health care.

Senate readies own bill: Senators arent content to just take up the House-passed bill, as comments collected by the Washington Post indicate. I think there will be essentially a Senate bill, said Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri, the fourth-ranking Senate Republican.

One potential area for change: Republican senators from states that have expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act also known as Obamacare have voiced concerns about rollbacks to that program in the House bill. Those senators include Rob Portman of Ohio and Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia.

Clintons resistance PAC: CNN reports Hillary Clinton will soon launch a political organization aimed at funding resistance groups that are standing up to President Donald Trump. Trumps Democratic foe in the 2016 presidential election is working with former aides and donors to build an organization that will look to fund and invest in groups that have impressed her since she lost the contest, CNN says.

Also read: Losing to Trump in November took some doing on Clintons part, says Obama strategist Axelrod.

Freedom Caucus working on tax plan: The conservative House Freedom Caucus is crafting a tax-reform bill as the subject heats up in Congress, Politico reports. The caucus, which roiled an early effort to repeal and replace Obamacare, would be parachuting into what promises to be a pitched battle over another marquee issue. Politico says members appear to be more aligned with the Trump administration on how deep tax cuts should be.

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Hillary Clinton and Gloria Steinem at the 29th annual Gloria Awards.

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Hillary Clinton has her eye on the Twitter trolls, and she came with a message for them at the 29th annual Gloria Awards at Capitale in New York City on Wednesday. Just as she did at Planned Parenthoods 100th Anniversary Gala on Tuesday, Clinton, this year's Gloria Awards Women of Vision honoree, told the crowd that she was out of the woods and ready to fight.

I just want all these Twitter trolls out there to know that maybe if you had left us alone, we might have gone out longer in the woods for our walks, but every time you hit those 140 characters demeaning womens voices and rights, were comin back at you, she said.

Clintons sentiment reflected the underlying theme of the annual awards dinner Wednesday night, We Wont Go Back, as activists and celebrities gathered to support the Ms. Foundation for Women. Gloria Steinem, along with her other co-founding mothers and Ms. Foundation president Teresa C. Younger, honored nine women whose trailblazing work has had an impact on a country on the cusp of an uncertain future.

Twitter was was another unofficial theme of the night. In her remarks introducing Clinton, Steinem said that women, especially, are warning Donald Trump that the past tense of Twitter is twat.

On that same note, actress Kathleen Turner told Vanity Fair on the red carpet that she has one wish for our Tweeter-in-Chief. I really wish that President Trump would speak better English, she said. I think that would be so nice.

Turner, who was joined in the crowd by other boldfaced names including Chelsea Handler, Martha Plimpton, Ann Curry, Kathy Najimy, and more, said any activist in this topsy-turvy political climate should choose a handful of causes to support. Her personal trifecta includes Meals on Wheels, People for the American Way, and Planned Parenthood.

Pick your three and show up, she said.

Following a live auction hosted by Younger and comedian Judy Gold at the end of the night, the organizers of the Womens March received the Marie C. Wilson Emerging Leaders Award. March organizer Linda Sarsour left attendees with one final call to action, before leading a rousing chant of resist throughout the dining room.

Our greatest hope is that women will create a groundswell of political participation and will work to get us free together . . . And yes, we will not go back.

At the after-party, Steinem told Vanity Fair that while the next four years have her doubtful, she remains hopeful, too. If we survive, which is a big if, we will be so much more activist and organized and connected with each other. The Trump resistance, she said, is encouragement alone: This is a thousand times bigger than anything Ive ever seen in my lifetime.

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Hillary Clinton has been working with Dennis Cheng, her campaigns finance director who was previously the Clinton Foundations chief development officer, to bring donors into the fold. | Getty

Six months after losing the presidential election, Hillary Clinton is ready to wade back into politics.

The former secretary of state is building a new political group to fund organizations working on the resistance to President Donald Trumps agenda, spending recent weeks in Washington, New York City, and Chappaqua, N.Y., meeting with donors and potential groups to invest in, and recruiting individuals for the groups board of directors, multiple people close to the two-time White House hopeful and people familiar with the groups planning told POLITICO.

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She is looking to launch the group, expected to be called Onward Together a nod to her campaign slogan, Stronger Together as soon as next week, they say. Clintons spokesman declined to comment for this story.

Clinton has been working with Dennis Cheng, her campaigns finance director who was previously the Clinton Foundations chief development officer, to bring donors into the fold.

Meanwhile, Judith McHale, who served as an undersecretary of state under Clinton, has been working with her to find groups to fund, as has former Democratic National Committee chairman, presidential candidate, and Vermont Gov. Howard Dean.

Clinton has started to fill out the board, which will include longtime ally and leading party strategist Minyon Moore.

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She has been in conversation with a wide range of political allies to discuss her next steps for months, but along with her upcoming book, the group whose existence was first reported by Axios is the most concrete step. The new organization is not expected to have a large staff, but will instead focus on sending money to other organizations at a time that Democratic donors are largely unsure about how they should be spending their cash.

The effort is starting to come together as its leader is increasingly stepping back into the public spotlight and while her party is still searching for its path ahead. After going quiet for a stretch after the campaign, Clinton has started publicly supporting groups aligned with her main goals, and is now not hesitating to jab at Trump when asked about him.

On Tuesday, for example, she appeared at a Women for Women International event in New York, forcefully repeating to CNNs Christiane Amanpour her belief that Russian interference and FBI Director James Comeys intervention were the proximate reasons for her loss in 2016.

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Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks onstage at the Ms. Foundation for Women 2017 Gloria Awards Gala at Capitale on May 3, 2017 in New York City.Daniel ZuchnikFilmMagic/Getty Images

Hillary Clinton is not happy with the health care bill House Republicans passed on Thursday.

Just hours after the House voted, Clinton took to Twitter to slam the legislation that Republicans are touting as the fulfillment of a longtime promise to repeal and replace Obamacare . Clinton called the new bill, which could affect health coverage for millions of Americans, a shameful failure of policy & morality by the GOP.

But she didnt stop at criticism. She also called on voters to fight back on behalf of the millions of families that will be hurt by their actions and tweeted out a link to a page where people can donate to help Democratic candidates run against Republicans who voted for the health care bill.

The vote on Thursday came six weeks after House Republicans had to pull a previous version of the bill because they failed to get enough support from their caucus. But the legislation has been amended to appeal to more of the far-right members of Congress.

The bill gives tax cuts to the wealthy and rolls back the expansion of Medicaid . It also reduces assistance to low-income Americans, defunds Planned Parenthood for a year and weakens protections for people with pre-existing conditions .

Because it was finalized and passed quickly, the Congressional Budget Office did not have time to score the bill before lawmakers voted. But the CBO found the previous version of the bill would have resulted in 24 million fewer insured people by 2026.

Now the bill has to make it past the Senate, where some Republicans have already expressed skepticism . But before that happens, Democrats like Clinton want to make sure lawmakers hear their objections.

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Hillary Clinton: Republican Health Care Bill Is a 'Shameful Failure of Policy and Morality' - TIME