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.
I never trusted Priebus but frankly I don’t know the Beltway like you do — you think Pence is another snake-in-the-grass?