Here’s how prominent conservative groups reacted to House Republicans’ Obamacare replacement plan

WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 28: U.S. President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of the U.S. Congress as Vice President Mike Pence (L) and House Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan (R) (R-WI) look on on February 28, 2017 in the House chamber of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC. Trump's first address to Congress focused on national security, tax and regulatory reform, the economy, and healthcare. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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House Republicans released the American Health Care Act, the replacement plan for the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), this week.

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“This is the Obamacare replacement plan that everyone has been asking for,” assured White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer during a Tuesday press conference.

However, some hours before his press conference, several prominent conservative groups made their thoughts on the plan abundantly clear.

Earlier on Tuesday, it was revealed that Club for Growth, Freedom Works, Heritage Action, and the Koch Brothers-funded Americans for Prosperity and Freedom Partners did not support the replacement plan.

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Club for Growth criticized the replacement in a press release, calling it “RyanCare:”

Club for Growth president David McIntosh said “The problems with this bill are not just what’s in it, but also what’s missing: namely, the critical free-market solution of selling health insurance across state lines.”

Noah Wall, FreedomWorks national director of campaigns, announced that it had called out four Republican senators for “fraud after they said they would not vote for the repeal they supported last term:”

These senators are Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio), Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.V.), Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Col.), and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska).

“They supported a strong repeal bill when they knew President Obama would never sign it, and now they won’t support the same language because President Trump might sign it,” Wall accused.

Heriage Action released a statement from chief executive officer Michael A. Needham:

“In many ways, the House Republican proposal released last night not only accepts the flawed progressive premises of Obamacare but expands upon them,” he said before proposing a full repeal.

Brent Gardner, Chief Government Affairs Officer of Americans for Prosperity, and Nathan Nascimento, Vice President of Policy at Freedom Partners, also released their joint statement on “Obamacare 2.0:”

https://twitter.com/FreedomPartners/status/839193650735300608

In a letter addressed to House Speaker Paul Ryan, Greg Walden of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Kevin Brady of the House Ways and Means Committee,  “the bill currently under consideration in the House does not repeal the elements that made Obamacare so devastating to American families, and we cannot support it.”

You can read the full letter here.

RELATED: Rand Paul accuses Republicans of sneaking around to push “Obamacare-lite” in secret

Several congressional Republicans have also joined in the criticisms, calling the bill “Obamacare-lite” or “Obamacare 2.0:”

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