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Donald Trump demands changes to ‘mean’ health bill
"Republicans Are Building An Alternate Reality Around Their Health Care Bill"
Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump. Picture: AP.
Rhys Blakely
The Times
1:00PM June 15, 2017
President Trump has performed a dramatic about-face on healthcare reform, dismissing as “mean” a bill he urged congressional Republicans to pass only weeks ago and demanding the Senate draft a more generous one.
His party has been promising to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, for the past seven years. They inched closer in May when the House of Representatives passed the American Health Care Act.
At the time Mr Trump called the legislation “incredibly well crafted” and “a great plan”. On the afternoon that it was voted through the lower legislative chamber, he invited scores of congressional Republicans to the White House for a celebratory get-together.
Now, however, he is sounding a different tune. The bill was “mean”, he told a White House lunch attended by Republican senators on Tuesday.
The Senate, he said, should rewrite the legislation to make it “generous, kind, with heart ... And that may be adding additional money into it.”
His change of heart is likely to infuriate fiscally conservative Republicans. It could also jeopardise plans to pass healthcare reform without Democratic support by exploiting complex congressional rules.
Mr Trump’s plea came after an official congressional analysis showed that the House of Representatives’ bill — which would have to be approved by the Senate as the upper chamber and signed by Mr Trump to become law — would result in 23 million fewer Americans having health insurance over the next decade.
The analysis showed that a 64-year-old who earns dollars 26,500 a year would pay an annual health insurance premium of dollars 14,600. The same person pays dollars 1,700 under Obamacare. The changes would endanger some of the most popular aspects of Obamacare, including a measure that bars insurers from rejecting those with existing medical conditions.
Surveys suggest that the legislation is deeply unpopular. A Quinnipiac University poll published last week showed that only 17 per cent of voters approved of it. When it was passed by Republicans in the House of Representatives, their Democratic colleagues chanted: “Na, na, na, na, hey, hey, hey, goodbye” — an expression of their belief that it will cost Mr Trump’s party seats in the midterm elections next year.
The Times
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/the-times/donald-trump-demands-changes-to-mean-health-bill/news-story/176dc94c64f876f460808e52a91b4bb5
Trump thought bubble - 'Damn, I said great when I meant mean! My support is sagging. World leaders are laughing at me. What can i do?'
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"Republicans Are Building An Alternate Reality Around Their Health Care Bill"
Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump. Picture: AP.
Rhys Blakely
The Times
1:00PM June 15, 2017
President Trump has performed a dramatic about-face on healthcare reform, dismissing as “mean” a bill he urged congressional Republicans to pass only weeks ago and demanding the Senate draft a more generous one.
His party has been promising to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, for the past seven years. They inched closer in May when the House of Representatives passed the American Health Care Act.
At the time Mr Trump called the legislation “incredibly well crafted” and “a great plan”. On the afternoon that it was voted through the lower legislative chamber, he invited scores of congressional Republicans to the White House for a celebratory get-together.
Now, however, he is sounding a different tune. The bill was “mean”, he told a White House lunch attended by Republican senators on Tuesday.
The Senate, he said, should rewrite the legislation to make it “generous, kind, with heart ... And that may be adding additional money into it.”
His change of heart is likely to infuriate fiscally conservative Republicans. It could also jeopardise plans to pass healthcare reform without Democratic support by exploiting complex congressional rules.
Mr Trump’s plea came after an official congressional analysis showed that the House of Representatives’ bill — which would have to be approved by the Senate as the upper chamber and signed by Mr Trump to become law — would result in 23 million fewer Americans having health insurance over the next decade.
The analysis showed that a 64-year-old who earns dollars 26,500 a year would pay an annual health insurance premium of dollars 14,600. The same person pays dollars 1,700 under Obamacare. The changes would endanger some of the most popular aspects of Obamacare, including a measure that bars insurers from rejecting those with existing medical conditions.
Surveys suggest that the legislation is deeply unpopular. A Quinnipiac University poll published last week showed that only 17 per cent of voters approved of it. When it was passed by Republicans in the House of Representatives, their Democratic colleagues chanted: “Na, na, na, na, hey, hey, hey, goodbye” — an expression of their belief that it will cost Mr Trump’s party seats in the midterm elections next year.
The Times
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/the-times/donald-trump-demands-changes-to-mean-health-bill/news-story/176dc94c64f876f460808e52a91b4bb5
Trump thought bubble - 'Damn, I said great when I meant mean! My support is sagging. World leaders are laughing at me. What can i do?'
See also:
AHCA is a betrayal of all the GOP’s promises on health care
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=131084617
Trump said foreign leaders wouldn’t laugh at the U.S. Now they’re laughing at him
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=132229319
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