HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump told Republican senators lunching at the White House Tuesday [6-13-17] the House-passed health care reform bill he celebrated earlier this year was ‘mean,’ a source told CNN.
Trump made clear multiple times that he was pleased that the Senate negotiations appeared to be moving away from where the House version of the repeal and replace effort ended up, according to three sources familiar with the meeting.
Trump told the lawmakers that the House bill didn’t go far enough in protecting individuals in the marketplace — and appeared to use that as his rationale for why he has ambiguously called twice for the Senate to ‘add more money’ to the bill.
The positive comments about the Senate plan tracks with Trump telling reporters during the meeting that the Senate should spend more on the bill to make it ‘generous, kind (and) with heart.’
But the comment belies the celebratory Rose Garden ceremony Trump hosted earlier this year when the House passed the bill and the President championed it as ‘incredibly well crafted.’ “
-Dan Merica, Jim Acosta, Lauren Fox, and Phil Mattingly, “Trump calls House health care bill ‘mean’,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, June 14, 2017 06:18am