It looked to me like he just wanted the “win” and did not care that it would cement in place the worst of Obamacare and in fact make other parts worse.
He wanted anything to pass so he could move on to the tax cuts.
In some ways I wish they had passed this POS to the Senate for them to make even worse, which they would have. Problem is then it would have a momentum all its own and more pressure to just pass it no matter how bad it was.
Maybe so I can’t disagree completely. I think he thought it would be improved or he wouldn’t sign it.
I have been looking into the Freedom Caucus rather than being a cheerleader either way. This was an interesting detailed article though from polico which leads me to believe they got drunk with power and didn’t act in their constituents interests: