Americans dislike GOP’s, Trump’s plan on health care
I was fully prepared to support the American Health Care Act, should it have come to the House Floor for a vote.
The last minute concessions Trump was willing to make in order to get more votes were becoming outrageous.
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“In just about seven weeks, people will be able to start buying Obamacare-approved insurance plans through the new health care exchanges”. You also wonder if the ruling Republicans will have them. The math is the same.
That law, which remains undisturbed for now, provides health insurance coverage primarily for people who can not get such coverage through their workplace or through another government program.
“I think it was an unforced error”, said Arkansas Republican Rep. Steve Womack. Having your wife and son live in NY and having us foot the bill is unacceptable.
“So I thought I’d just bring them all, just to get them all checked you know, just to make sure”, she added, flanked by her four daughters, aged three to 17. “The question is whether they can learn from their early mistakes and change course”, said Galston. Moreover, telegraphing that strategy, something Trump has loudly criticized the Obama Administration for on military matters, gives Democrats exactly the ammo they need to paint Republicans as playing God, allowing innocent people to suffer just so they could prove they were right.
(CBS4) – A new poll just released by CBS News shows most Americans want President Donald Trump to move on from health care to other issues, are optimistic about the president’s future, but still want an investigation into possible ties between Trump associates and Russian Federation. “At the same time, after last week, it’s hard to see how the entire conference can find a unified position”. If he sticks with Ryan trying to get right-wing extremists and more moderate Republicans to agree on anything, health care could be just the beginning, in a twist on one of his own campaign clichés, of losing so much that Trump is going to get exhausted of losing. “So any inkling of a rebirth is going to lead to that reaction”, said Les Funtleyder, health care portfolio manager for E Squared Asset Management.
“All last week he was calling them”.
As things stand now, there is no active health care proposal that will improve the ACA, or lower its costs, or broaden its coverage.
“Have we had some discussions and listened to ideas?”
Now, President Donald Trump, who’s never been accused of having too much patience, is signaling that he and GOP leaders may take another run at health care after last week’s colossal defeat of their first attempt at reform.
Spicer said, “We’re not trying to jam that down anyone’s throat right now”.
Ryan vowed members would continue working although he didn’t offer any specific timeline. But now, it’s time to get in a room and hash out the seemingly intractable.
We had the bill that was under debate in the house, but it didn’t pass.
McConnell complemented Trump’s and Ryan’s efforts and then concluded his remarks on the debacle with four words: “Sorry that didn’t work”. On Tuesday, he suggested Republicans weren’t giving up. Arlen Specter, who switched parties to get the Democrats to 60 votes through 2010.
“I don’t want that to happen”.
“I think we have plenty of time”.
House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows, a North Carolina Republican, has been negotiating with colleagues on a compromise. But it needs work.
The spot, first reported by Bloomberg News, notes job growth, the rollback of regulations, greenlighting of a pipeline and undoing of an worldwide trade deal before concluding, “And it’s only just begun”. “My prayers and my support are with you”.
The effort to undo Obamacare also has laid bare sharp divisions among Republicans that could bedevil Trump in the future, particularly if he moves on to tax reform, infrastructure spending and cutting the budget.
“My fear is that people lock in and kind of double down on their position”, said Walden on resuscitating the health care bill. ‘We all need health care. “If you don’t have the votes, you don’t have the votes”. Repeal of Obamacare would have cost 2.7 people across the state nearly $4 billion. But what does it say about your policy when even people who don’t understand the concept of taxes think your bill is ridiculous?