Next move on health care – #CollapseandReplace.
— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) March 24, 2017
So, where does the GOP go now that the AHCA is effectively dead? Sen. Lindsey Graham has some thoughts:
Appears efforts to Repeal & Replace #Obamacare being put on the shelf for time being.
Next move on health care – Collapse and Replace. 1/4
— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) March 24, 2017
#Winning is replacing Obamacare with something that improves the health care choices available to Americans. 2/4
— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) March 24, 2017
#Losing is simply passing a bill for the sake of passing a bill. 3/4
— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) March 24, 2017
Good news is we still have a chance to WIN. Trump should challenge D's to work w/ him when Obamacare inevitably collapses which it will. 4/4
— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) March 24, 2017
It seems Trump’s already done that:
Trump told me he's willing to cut a bipartisan deal in the future: "When it explodes they [Dems] come to us and we make one beautiful deal.”
— Robert Costa (@costareports) March 24, 2017
President Trump says he'd be "open" to bargaining with Democrats on a health care bill. https://t.co/sH3F7LxTrW
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 24, 2017
From the AP:
President Donald Trump says he would be willing to reopen negotiations for a health care bill with Democrats if the Affordable Care Act fails.
Trump told reporters Friday that he would be “open to it” if Democrats wanted to work on a bipartisan measure. He predicted the current law would soon collapse.
Here’s the thing, though: Would the Democrats honestly be open to “bargaining” with Trump and the GOP for a halfway-decent Obamacare replacement?
Here’s the bargain they’ll offer: Obamacare is here to stay.
Quite the status quo disruptor you elected, GOP. https://t.co/u7iGAxEkI6
— Ben Howe (@BenHowe) March 24, 2017
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