Trump scrambles to control damage on GOPs dead-on-arrival health bill - and vows fixes in 'phase 2'

[DonViejo]

Source: RawStory


BRAD REED
07 MAR 2017 AT 09:25 ET

The Republican Partys new health care bill is getting panned from all sides, and President Donald Trump has already taken to Twitter to try to clean up the mess. The president began the day by expressing enthusiasm for our wonderful new health care bill, which he said was nonetheless open for review and negotiation.

Link to tweet

However, the GOPs plan took heavy criticism on Fox & Friends on Tuesday morning from both Sen. Rand Paul (R-TN) and conservative talk radio host Laura Ingraham.

Paul slammed the plan as Obamacare lite and vowed to oppose it on the grounds that it created a new entitlement program. Ingraham, meanwhile, said that two of the biggest promises that Trump made during his presidential campaign to rein in the cost of prescription drugs and to let Americans buy insurance plans across state lines were nowhere to be found in the GOPs plan.

Trump tweeted out that hes still going to pursue the ideas that he campaigned on, but added that they would have to come in Phase 2 & 3 of repealing Obamacare.

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Trump backs House healthcare plan, says open to negotiations

REUTERS
07 MAR 2017 AT 09:19 ET

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday backed a draft Republican proposal to dismantle Obamacare that was unveiled Monday, saying the proposed healthcare legislation was “out for review and negotiation.”

Trump, in a tweet on Tuesday morning, described the bill proposed by fellow Republicans in the House of Representatives as “Our wonderful new healthcare bill.”

The plan, released late on Monday, would undo Democratic President Barack Obama’s 2010 healthcare law, removing the penalty paid by Americans without insurance coverage and rolling back extra healthcare funding for the poor.

The plan was swiftly criticized by Democrats.

Although Obamacare has long been a common target of Republicans, the proposal also met with skepticism from some in the party who are concerned about the replacement plan’s tax credits for buying health insurance and changes to coverage under Medicaid, the government health insurance program for the poor.

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[C_U_L8R]

1. Oh look, it's shiny

But'll kill you

[riversedge]

13. Too many Trump inspired shiny objects for the media to handle.

[NCjack]

2. The "new Healthcare Bill" (GOP) can't be fixed -- too many

preexisting conditions. SAD

[Ford_Prefect]

3. Version 2 will fix it. Now where have we heard that one before?

[DetlefK]

4. Don't worry. They will Repeal&Replace their own bill with a better version. In 7 short years.

[uppityperson]

5. And he's getting rid of state lines!

https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/839108868584124417

[Friend or Foe]

6. What is this "our" sh!t?

Is Dear Leader now pregnant with the KGOP's bastard health care bill?

I thought Dear Leader had his own wonderful, beautiful, awesomest bigly bill.

[spiderpig]

7. Too bad the title The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight has already been used

Yeesh - our 3rd grade dodgeball team was better organized.

[mobeau69]

8. The idiot won't even read it. He's no Sylvia Burwell on this subject.

Bahahahahahahahaha...OMG...Bahahahahahahahahaha




Give it to Donnie, he'll sign anything.


This nation has lost its way.

[Blue Idaho]

9. Grab it Donny - grab it with both hands and don't let go.

When this turd starts circling the drain it will be one more example of you incompetence. One more reason to stop you and the republican majority dead in your tracks.

[cstanleytech]

12. Not just his incompetence but also the Repugnant parties incompetence but then that tends

to happen when you willfully blind yourself with greed, hate and a lust for more power at any cost even if said cost is colluding with a foreign government.

[Blue Idaho]

16. They exhibit a willful disregard

For everyone outside the GOP country club. If there is any justice they will rot from the inside out.

[Buckeyeblue]

10. He might as well be saying

If you think this sucks, you haven't seen anything yet!

[Nitram]

11. That's right, Twitter Tweets will solve the problem.

Congress doesn't need to meet anymore, just tweet their momentary insights into anything at all.

[rtracey]

14. dead on arrival?

Really? dead on arrival? any indications that it is? filibuster in the senate? needing 60 votes, and some right wingers are not voting for it?.... it will be dead when it is dead, but don't say it until it happens...

[Cosmocat]

18. They don't need 60 votes in the senate for what they are proposing

part of why it so hard for them to get anything put together is that they know they won't get 60 votes in the senate, so the current bill is built around only those things they can get through on reconciliation (all somehow budgetary related), which does not need the 60 votes for a vote, they can just have a straight up and down vote.

NOW - it does seem as though there are going to be a couple R senators that won't sign on for whatever crazy ass reasons they have, so as long as team D finds the where with all to have everyone stand united, we might duck this.

But, it isn't as DOA by any means, kind of a long shot.

[rtracey]

20. agree

[Solly Mack]

15. "...rolling back extra healthcare funding for the poor" and replacing it with - Die already dammit!

[area51]

17. Psychopath Trump is projecting.

Let me correct his typo.

"TrumpCare is a complete and total disaster - is imploding fast!"

[dalton99a]

19. "Just sign here, if this beautiful used car breaks down, bring it in and we'll fix it for free"

"As Is, suckers"