Posted on 03/22/2017 6:08:54 AM PDT by pgkdan
President Trump, who promised to totally repeal Obamacare, is threatening Republicans with political retribution if they do not support the House bill which would leave the worst elements of Obamacare intact.
The House bill does a few good things -- it eliminates the individual mandate to buy insurance, and relieves employers of the costly burden of providing insurance for their workers. But, mostly, the worst parts of Obamacare stay in effect.
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And President Trump is threatening any Republican who votes against it.
President Trump on Tuesday turned up the pressure on recalcitrant Republicans to support a sweeping bill to overhaul the health care system, threatening wavering lawmakers in his party with political payback if they failed to get behind a measure that has become an early test of his negotiating power.
“I’m going to come after you,” Mr. Trump told Representative Mark Meadows, Republican of North Carolina, a prime holdout and the chairman of the conservative Freedom Caucus.
Trump is threatening primary challenges to those who do not pass this "Son of Obamacare" monstrosity.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
See post #74.
No need to threaten if it is such a good bill.
It is not so the threat.
You are right.
I hate plan but you are right.
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