The ACA remains the law for the foreseeable future. Speaker Paul Ryan’s bill did not have the votes to pass, primarily due to the curmudgeon conservatives that felt the bill did not go far enough to hurt the less fortunate.
In spite of Mr. Art of the Trump’s arm twisting and threats that members who failed to support the bill would lose their seats in 2018 Ryan couldn’t muster the votes. Realizing his failure Trump told the Speaker to pull the bill keeping in character blamed democrats for it failing.
Trump further said democrats would come to him when the ACA explodes. Presumably on their knees.
ABC – House Republican leaders decided to pull their Obamacare replacement bill at the last minute at the request of President Donald Trump — capping a rocky series of weeks since the controversial measure was introduced and an order from the president for legislators to put their cards on the table today.
A GOP aide tells ABC News that Trump called Speaker of the House Paul Ryan at 3 p.m. to tell him to pull the bill. The next House votes are scheduled for Monday, so no further votes are expected in the House for the day or the week.
“We’ve got to do better and we will,” Ryan said at a hastily arranged press conference this afternoon. “This is a setback no two ways about it,” but GOP leadership is emerging from the day “motivated to step up our game and deliver our promises.”
Ryan said they pulled the bill because they couldn’t get enough “yes” votes for the bill to succeed on the floor. He said “I’m really proud of the bill we produced,” but later in his speech called it a “fundamentally flawed” piece of legislation.
“Obamacare is the law of the land,” Ryan said. It’s going to remain the law of the land until it’s replaced… And, so, yeah, we’re going to be living with Obamacare for the foreseeable future.”
The Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, has been in effect since President Obama signed it in 2010. Republicans have vowed to get rid of the bill since then.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi called today’s developments a “victory for the American people.”
Trump blamed the failure on the Democrats, and said in a press conference that they will come to him when Obamacare “explodes.”
“It’s imploding and soon will explode and it’s not going to be pretty,” Trump said.
This failure was a good thing for the American people, especially the 24 million that would have lost health coverage.
Trump failed to guide his party to finding a workable replacement for the ACA that would ensure everyone would have heath insurance coverage. His promise that everyone would be covered was a lie and he knew it at the time he said it.
Trump’s credibility just keeps sinking lower and lower. So does the respect people have for him. If they ever had any to begin with.
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It’s really difficult to keep up with all of Trump’s lies and excuses. He claims he never said he’d repeal and replace Obamacare in 65 days. True. He didn’t specifically say 64 days, but he said probably in a day or even an hour after his HHS secretary was approved. So there’s that. Also Trump blamed the Democrats for his failure, because, as he said, not one Democrat voted for the bill.
Trump conveniently forgets that President Obama managed to pass the ACA without one Republican vote. But then, Mr. Obama knew how to work the art of the deal, unlike President Thirty-Seven Percent.
Trump’s boastings and lies are catching up with him. It’s one thing to be a bloviating loudmouth as a candidate, and quite another thing as POTUS. People expect a POTUS to deliver on all his promises and boasts, and today Trump failed!
So far Trump has produced nothing for the average middle class American citizen. But it is now clear he was never serious about doing that. His primary interest(s) is to deregulate as much as he possibly can get away so businesses, particularly large corporations become more prosperous. Of course there will be some “trickle down” benefits we’re told. However, In the pursuit of his agenda it’s to hell with the environment and scientific data.
On another note, forget about women’s health and Planned Parenthood, spend billions on a southern border wall we don’t need, deport million of people who present no physical threat to us or the country, gut the Department of Education’s, and more.
All of that in the name of Making America Great “Again”.
Americans are seeing what it elected in action, and, it appears fewer and fewer approve.
The “moderates” lost. That means there’s no “replace” in the offing.
Actually the repeal only advocates lost. The repeal and replace with a pig in a poke (Ryan’s disaster ) lost. Moderates won. They are happy to wait until a sensible congress and an effective President give it a whirl in 2021.
The Failure in Chief failed.
Going out on a limb, but a firm one, I think-
“ObamaCare will implode”. With Price at Health & Human Services, there is
significant latitude in personnel, funding, direction: the policy will be to destroy
the existing programs, shout “I told you so” and of course, blame the Democrats.
It will be entirely in line with Trump/TP thinking and the US citizenry will be the
victim. …immigrants and terrorists bother me far less.