President Trump is taking ownership of the Republican bill to replace Obamacare with an alternative national health care system. He is trying to “quash” conservative resistance to the proposal and has pledged to do what it takes to get the bill passed.
But the President is open to changes to the bill, which will surely look different once it goes through the various committees and amendment processes.
The administration does not, however, like the word “Trumpcare.” Then again, the Obama administration did not like the word “Obamacare.” Just as the previous president preferred “The Affordable Care Act,” Trump spokesmen prefer the actual name given in the bill, The American Health Care Act.
Republicans who don’t like it but who want to distance it from Trump are calling it Ryancare. Senator Rand Paul, a critic of the program, is calling it Obamacare-lite. I suspect, though, that “Trumpcare” is going to stick.
In our previous discussion of the Republican plan, many of you were opposed to it. Does it change your mind, now that President Trump is getting behind it?
From Trump tries to quash conservative uproar over health care bill – POLITICO:
President Donald Trump is moving to quiet conservative opposition to the House GOP Obamacare replacement, drawing on his newfound bully pulpit to pressure but also coax rebellious lawmakers.
Trump on Tuesday night turned his massive Twitter following on one of the most vocal opponents of the repeal bill: conservative firebrand Sen. Rand Paul. The Kentucky Republican had blasted Speaker Paul Ryan’s Obamacare alternative as “Obamacare-lite.” But Trump tweeted, “I feel sure that my friend @RandPaul will come along with the new and great health care program because he knows Obamacare is a disaster!”
Trump also told a group of 20 House GOP whips that he would use all the powers in his Oval Office arsenal to get the GOP alternative over the finish line, and he vowed to summon to the White House opponents of the bill.
“This meeting was a confirmation from the president that he will do what’s necessary and will have our backs,” said Rep. Dennis Ross (R-Fla.), one whip in the meeting. “He basically said whatever we need him to do … he’ll do that, because it’s really, as Mike Pence said, is a binary choice: You vote to keep Obamacare or you vote to repeal it.”
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Photo of Obamacare protest by NObama NoMas, Flickr, Creative Commons License.
President Trump is taking ownership of the Republican bill to replace Obamacare with an alternative national health care system. He is trying to “quash” conservative resistance to the proposal and has pledged to do what it takes to get the bill passed.
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