House Obamacare repeal bill faces Senate makeover

Even if the House passes the GOP bill to repeal and replace Obamacare on Thursday, as Republicans hope, their colleagues in the Senate say the bill will face substantial changes in the Senate.

House GOP leaders set up a Thursday vote on the bill in the hopes of finally passing it, and Senate Republicans have started sifting through the legislation and are already targeting areas they would seek to change.

"I know the members of the Senate have lots of amendments," Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., a medical doctor and member of the GOP leadership. "This is going to be an open process on the Senate floor, so we're working to get to yes."

A few GOP lawmakers are backing alternative plans, which further guarantees the final product will have to be a compromise between the two chambers.

"There are undoubtedly going to be some changes," Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, who will play a key role in writing the compromise, told the Washington Examiner.