UPDATED: Trump says healthcare reform push may need additional money

[DonViejo]

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Source: Reuters

Tue Jun 13, 2017 | 12:45pm EDT

President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that the Republican push to repeal Obamacare may require additional money for healthcare, but he did not specify how much more funding would be needed or how it might be used.

Trump told Republican Senators joining him for lunch at the White House that their planned healthcare reform bill would need to be "generous" and "kind."

"That may be adding additional money into it," Trump said, without offering further details.

(Reporting by Ayesha Rascoe)

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-healthcare-funding-idUSKBN1942C2

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AP sources: Trump tells senators House health bill ‘mean’

By ALAN FRAM
11 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump told Republican senators Tuesday that the House-passed health care bill is “mean” and urged them to craft a version that is “more generous,” congressional sources said.

The president’s comments, at a White House lunch with 15 GOP senators, came as Senate Republican leaders’ attempts to write their own health care package have been slowed by disagreements between their party’s conservative and moderates.

Trump’s remarks were a surprising critique of a Republican-written House measure whose passage he lobbied for and praised. At a Rose Garden ceremony minutes after the bill’s narrow House passage, Trump called it “a great plan.”

His comments also seemed to undercut efforts by Senate conservatives to include restrictions in their chamber’s bill, such as cutting the Medicaid health care program for the poor and limiting the services insurers must cover. Moderate GOP senators have been pushing to ease those efforts.

The sources say the president did not specify what aspects of the bill he was characterizing.

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[Tanuki]

1. Generous and kind? He's barking up the wrong tree.

And lying, too. He never practices generosity and kindness to anyone but his own spawn.

[murielm99]

6. He is kind to his spawn in public.

I wonder what goes on privately. They have probably been terrified and brainwashed into being supportive of him.

[Tanuki]

9. I have no doubt that he has bullied and humiliated his sons.

His relationship with Ivanka is extremely troubling in other ways. He seems to have pretty much ignored the younger two, beyond financial support and the occasional photo op.

[forgotmylogin]

12. If he'd just fund the ACA

he could leave all this behind and forget it ever happened. Move on to trying to destroy the Tax Code.

[muriel_volestrangler]

16. His purpose is to dismantle anything from Obama; so he's holding the public hostage

He's withholding funding from the ACA implementation, but saying they should put some money back in if it's a different plan that's his, not Obama's. It's not *all* about giving money to rich people like him; he also needs to erase the traces of the previous president and put up things with his name in large letters on.

I sometimes wonder if we promised to stop naming scandals by suffixing them with "-gate", and instead prefixed them with "Trump", so that future generations would talk about, say, a "TrumpJail" scandal, would he just resign, knowing his name will live on - even if as shit?

[asiliveandbreathe]

2. Just another smoke screen...

This is like midnight in the garden of good and evil.....we all do our best to promote what is good...do the most good for the most people..congress, not so much..

[hibbing]

3. oh ffs

That party is fighting among themselves over just how cruel they can be and how fast they can take away insurance from 20 million people.



Peace

[Vinca]

4. Blah, blah, blah. Blah, blah, blah. Now it's time to tell Dear Leader how much you love him.

[Deb]

5. He must have gotten some last night

[not fooled]

7. But his dimwitted followers

will eat it up.

[procon]

8. Republicans have a different way to define "generous" and "kind" than normal people. nt

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

10. Trump(R) says take two steps back....

Then kiss my fat Kentucky Fried Chicken ass.

[The_Casual_Observer]

11. He means increasing the size of the proposed tax credits, I suppose.

[hedda_foil]

13. Generous and kind to whom exactly.

[regnaD kciN]

14. Generous and kind to insurance companies...

...we'll have to cough up some of those sweet, sweet tax dollars to compensate them for the loss of 24 million customers when we return to the "free-market" in healthcare by repealing the ACA.

[moonscape]

15. Generous and kind would be fixing it, not making it

nasty and mean-spirited.

Apologies for stating the obvious. Am just livid at how odious everything he touches becomes.