McConnell to Trump: We're not repealing and replacing ObamaCare

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told President Trump in a conversation Monday that the Senate will not be moving comprehensive health care legislation before the 2020 election, despite the president asking Senate Republicans to do that in a meeting last week.

McConnell said he made clear to the president that Senate Republicans will work on bills to keep down the cost of health care, but that they will not work on a comprehensive package to replace the Affordable Care Act, which the Trump administration is trying to strike down in court.

We had a good conversation yesterday afternoon and I pointed out to him the Senate Republicans’ view on dealing with comprehensive health care reform with a Democratic House of Representatives,” McConnell told reporters Tuesday, describing his conversation with Trump.

“I was fine with Sen. Alexander and Sen. Grassley working on prescription drug pricing and other issues that are not a comprehensive effort to revisit the issue that we had the opportunity to address in the last Congress and were unable to do so,” he said, referring to Senate Health Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and the failed GOP effort in 2017 to repeal and replace ObamaCare.

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/436973-mcconnell-to-trump-were-not-repealing-and-replacing-obamacare

[SlogginThroughIt]

1. This sets the table nicely for us.

This will undoubtedly make healthcare the premium issue on the ballot in 2020. However I cannot believe they want to do this. They have an absolutely terrible track record and trump will have failed on hos campaign promise the last time around.

[applegrove]

2. I call it Health-xit. It will sink republicans.

[RockRaven]

3. But I thought Rick Scott (aka Skeletor McMedicare-fraud-face) was going to come up with a plan...

Didn't Trump just say so?

[Jarqui]

4. Simple solution: get someone to draft a healthcare policy report and give it to Bill Barr ... nt

[politicaljunkie41910]

5. I laugh to myself out loud everytime I recall Trump saying, no one would believe how difficult

putting together a health care plan is. No shit Sherlock. Sure only those of us who have been paying attention and monitoring Hillary working on a comprehensive health care plan for several years during the Clinton administration, and again during the Obama administration. Sorry Trump, but some of us do read, and we did know that putting together an affordable comprehensive health plan is hard work. That is why we had so much respect for the Clinton's and the Obama's for taking on the project. Perhaps if you read something once in a while, you wouldn't be so quick to criticize other people before you've walked a mile in their shoes.