Posted on 07/18/2017 1:18:48 PM PDT by Hadean
President Trump said Tuesday he's prepared let ObamaCare fail after the collapse of Senate Republicans' latest health care bill, indicating he's willing to move on to tax reform and other issues and deal with an Affordable Care Act fix down the road.
I think we're probably in that position where we'll just let ObamaCare fail, Trump told reporters at the White House. We're not going to own it. I'm not going to own it. I can tell you the Republicans are not going to own it. We'll let ObamaCare fail, and then the Democrats are going to come to us."
He spoke after two more Republican senators came out late Monday against the Senate bill, effectively killing its chances in its current form. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., plans to call a vote on a bill to repeal ObamaCare now and replace it later, but on Tuesday afternoon left the door open to working with Democrats if that fails.
The White House focused its ire Tuesday on Democratic lawmakers, suggesting they'll regret their opposition. "The failure of ObamaCare rests solely on the shoulder of the Democrats. They pushed it through, and they need to own the failure of it," Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said.
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I had a wise boss who told me, “If you want to replace a sacred cow anything, just force people to use it to the letter. Don’t allow any workarounds. Trust me, it will quickly be changed by the very people who wouldn’t let you touch it now.”
Good. Let it die.
I agree. Let it crash and burn Mr. President.
Trump should eliminate all the “exclusions” to his buddies then.
To the letter.
Obama’s buddies
My prediction is Ryan and McConnell will bail it out with funding. What can stop them?
DON’T replace unconstitutional ACA AKA Government healthcare with more unconstitutional government healthcare. The answser is NO GOVERNMENT healthcare AKA THE FREE MARKET!!!!
The voluntary cooperation directly between patients and doctors in the marketplace free from government interference is the best healthcare system in the world which America had until the feds started unconstitutionally screwing it up in the 60s.
KICK THE POLITICIANS OUT OF HEALTHCARE. They dont care about your health, only their political careers.
Yep! And don’t allow the Congressional RINOs to lift a single finger to moderate the death spiral!
Just be sure to EO the IRS to stop assessing fines, er “taxes” for those who don’t buy it...preferably, RETROACTIVELY.
If you are in charge of Congress and the White House....you own it.
A big mistake and we will pay for it, possibly Big Time. Killing it now and letting it die over the two year grace period would force a solution in 2019. Right now we are not going to have a failed Obamacare, we are going to have a patched and subsidized Obamacare FOREVER.
I’ve asked 50 times: what does Trump want out of this bill? So far, I know that it will be terrific and cover everybody.
How does he propose doing that?
What are the guiding principles here?
When the governors of WV and Kentucky start howling about Medicaid, is McConnell really going to ignore them? Will Capito (who just killed repeal) going to allow him to ignore them?
Not quite sure what let if fail means.
It has to be funded. No budget or continuing resolution will pass if funding isn’t in that legislation.
The CRs to date all funded it.
What “Buddies” are you referring to?
McConnell, Ryan, Mikulski, Capito, Collins et al?
They aren’t his “buddies”. They are total a-holes trying to sabotage his agenda. They are perfectly willing to be the minority party as long as they hold office.
I hate them and so should any rank and file Republican or conservative.
They are WORSE than Democrats. Democrats are the ENEMY. THEY are back-stabbing traitors.
I’ve said all along to make the democrats want to fix it.
Tell Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi that they need to fix obamacare. And they need to do so without it adding more debt to taxpayers.
Put the monkey on their backs. Fix it!!!
They already own it. Obamacare failure may be inevitable but the failure will happen on their watch.
"We'll let ObamaCare fail, and then the Democrats are going to come to us."
He can't seriously believe that.
If you are in charge of Congress and the White House....you own it.
BULLSHIT!!
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