Note the way McConnell and Ryan planned this.
1. To maintain any kind of safety net in healthcare, you need an army of lawyers. The largest legal army the government has is the DOJ.
Isn’t it interesting that Sessions was held back from confirmation, and on the same week that he fires Obama holdouts is the very week that RyanCare gets launched?
I’d be surprised if Trump had a trusted sizeable legal team in place to review RyanCare. IMHO, he was blitzed at the same time we are.
Ryan set the schedule. Ask Hannity, who interviewed him when Sean H visited DC. Ryan told him he would start with healthcare reform in March and after that tax cuts.
And, if there’s any chance with working with a House Speaker, it doesn’t pay to personally embarrass him. Trump absolutely needs tax cuts, but Ryan is clearly holding our economy hostage — either he gets his healthcare or he threatens total war.
Priebus and Pence (and in this case Price) IMO are right in there doing Ryan’s work from inside the Trump team.
But it is still insulting that after all the considered earfuls Trump has got on the bill from the likes of Cruz and Paul, and all the claims of “listening”, he is still trying to ram this through by making the same kind of ridiculous claims for Obamacare 2.0 that Obama made for 1.0.