I wish Trump would understand it isn’t the role of the federal government to replace Obamacare with a similar “plan”.
Somehow he seems impervious to the importance of the free market in this 15% of our economy, and instead seems to want to prove his healthcare Santa Claus bona fides.
President Trump has repeatedly mentioned the free market with respect to this process, and, furthermore, wasn't the House Freedom Caucus supposed to be the ones who were the guardians of the conservatives on the House side? Didn't they insist on free market features? Or were their "Yes" votes a sell-out?
In any event, the "holdouts" at the moment are the equivalent of the Senate version of the HFC (Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, and a couple of others), so can't we count of them to make sure such considerations are incorporated?
We have to be realistic about the magnitude of the Republican majorities in both the House and the Senate. It will take several cycles of the election of pro-Trump legislators before anything ideal could be done.
Just as the House did, I'm sure that some will want to make the perfect the enemy of the good, but I have no doubt that whatever does pass is something the President will want to succeed and be liked. I completely dismiss the notion that he simply wants to get anything passed, because he has no interest in being blamed for a crappy law—a signature law of his administration—anyone who thinks otherwise simlpy doesn't know this man, and is denying the contrary evidence of their own eyes with respect to what he has done thus far in his brief administration.
President Trump doesn't like unsuccessful projects, and although I'm sure he's had a few, it simply naive to think he will be happy with anything less than a significant improvement over what exists right now.
The President's actions on the Paris Climate Agreement alone are an unmistakable sign that he's taking his campaign pledges seriously, including those relating to health care reform and draining the swamp...