GOP/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA): “Two key senators in the Republican effort to pass a health-care bill on Friday [6-30-17] morning called for the White House to intervene with a more aggressive strategy if Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell hasn’t locked in 50 votes by the time lawmakers return from the July 4 recess—and President Donald Trump seemed to embrace the idea.
Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska said that congressional leaders’ prospects of overturning parts of the 2010 Affordable Care Act and enact their own provisions in its place were dimming. He said the party’s best hope for passing a health-care bill now could be to wipe out the law in its entirety, then work on a deal to fill the void.
‘On the current path it looks like Republicans will either fail to pass any meaningful bill at all, or will instead pass a bill that looks to prop up many of the crumbling Obama care structures,’ he said in a letter he announced he was sending to the White House.”
-Louise Radnofsky, “Senators Urge Trump to Back Wholesale Obamacare Repeal if GOP Bill Stalls,” The Wall Street Journal online, June 29, 2017 08:24am