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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Trump changes mind again, telling senators to get health bill ‘on my desk’
Within a day of telling Republicans to simply ‘let Obamacare fail’, president says they should cancel their August break to address healthcare reform
Less than 24 hours after Donald Trump advised Republicans to “let Obamacare fail”, he once again switched course and told senators to cancel their August recess and remain in Washington until they overhaul the healthcare law.
During an uncomfortable lunch on Wednesday, Trump warned Republican senators that “inaction” was not an o...
Healthcare plan flatlines again
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After the collapse of a Republican health care reform bill in the Senate Monday night, leader Mitch McConnell declared a new plan, which then immediately collapsed. Barack Obama’s healthcare law lives on…
Last-ditch effort thwarted
‘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Donald Trump says he is ‘disappointed’ by his party’s failure to agree on legislation that would have repealed and replaced Barack Obama’s signature healthcare act.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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Trump pivots from Obamacare repeal to ordering Republicans to ‘let it fail’
Frustrated president still lacks major legislative achievements six months into tenure as Republican defections in Senate doom replacement healthcare bill
Donald Trump said Republicans should “let Obamacare fail”, after the dramatic collapse of efforts to repeal and replace Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act (ACA).
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Who are the ‘dopes’ that can’t pass a replacement healthcare bill?
Donald Trump has labeled the Republican senators who can’t scrape together a replacement for the Affordable Care Act – here’s who he may have meant
On Monday night Donald Trump reportedly told Republican senators they would look like “dopes” if they couldn’t pass a healthcare bill to replace the Affordable Care Act.
This is one of those occasions where the president might actually be right.
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Repeal now, replace later? GOP’s last-ditch healthcare effort faces slim odds
Mitch McConnell says he will pursue a vote on just a repeal of Obamacare after Republicans failed to coalesce around a bill of their own. It’s a course that could crack the deep divisions already exposed by the healthcare debate
The collapse of the Senate Republican healthcare bill on Monday night left Mitch McConnell pursuing a last-ditch change of tactics: to repeal Barack Obama’s healthcare law now, then replace it later. There is no guarantee he will succeed.
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Senate healthcare bill stumbles after Republican party defections – video report
The US Senate’s healthcare overhaul appears to be in serious trouble as two more Republicans say they oppose a revised version of the bill. Republican senators Jerry Moran and Mike Lee both pledged on Monday night to vote against the healthcare bill - defections that may effectively kill the plan
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Senate will vote to repeal Obamacare without replacement, after new healthcare bill stumbles
Republican Mitch McConnell calls for vote on clean repeal, after senators Mike Lee and Jerry Moran come out against latest effort to replace Obamacare
Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell has announced that the Senate will vote on a clean repeal of Obamacare without any replacement, after two Republican senators broke ranks to torpedo the current Senate healthcare bill.
Senators Mike Lee of Utah and Jerry Moran of Kansas came out on Monday night in opposition to McConnell’s Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA), the Senate version of the controversial healthcare reform bill that passed the House in May.
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