US president Donald Trump has changed his mind on the future path for healthcare on Wednesday, telling senators to ‘get it done’ and adding that politicians ‘shouldn’t leave town until this is complete’. This marks a departure from Trump’s statements earlier in the week after the Republican party’s healthcare bill failed to gather enough support to pass and the president said he would instead ‘let Obamacare fail’
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Donald Trump changes his mind on healthcare: ‘Get it done’ – video
US president Donald Trump has changed his mind on the future path for healthcare on Wednesday, telling senators to ‘get it done’ and adding that politicians ‘shouldn’t leave town until this is complete’. This marks a departure from Trump’s statements earlier in the week after the Republican party’s healthcare bill failed to gather enough support to pass and the president said he would instead ‘let Obamacare fail’
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‘Let Obamacare fail’: Donald Trump lays out healthcare plan – video
Donald Trump says he is ‘disappointed’ by his party’s failure to agree on legislation that would have repealed and replaced Barack Obama’s signature healthcare act. Speaking to reporters after support for his bill fell apart, the US president said his administration was ‘in the position where we’ll let Obamacare fail’
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What conservative pundits say about Trumpcare (spoiler: they all dislike it)
Conservative commentators have derided the Republican bill as weak, visionless, and a treasonous acceptance of the basic thrust of the Affordable Care Act
Senate Republicans pleased no one this week. Granted, they were never going to get much love from Democrats defending Obamacare, or their more progressive colleagues who are daring to talk aloud again about a single payer scheme. But their own ideological bedfellows also went after them as their plan, such as it was, was shelved un...
The Resistance Now: activists say ‘hell no’ to Republican healthcare bill
Progressives sprung into action with dozens protesting outside the Senate majority leader’s office, while Democrats took stock after Ossoff’s loss
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Dozens of people were arrested after protesting outside Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell’s office on Thursday – including some in wheelchairs – as Republicans unveiled Republicans unveiled Trumpcare 2.0 (or are we on 3....