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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sat Mar 25, 2017, 12:53 PM Mar 2017

What Trump Didn't Like About the Health Care Bill

Politico: “For weeks Trump had seemed disinterested and disengaged from the specifics of the health care fight, both behind closed doors with his aides and at public rallies. Trump ‘just wanted to get something he could sign,’ said one adviser who talks to him frequently. ‘He was over it.’ He would often interrupt conversations on the law to talk about other issues, advisers and aides said.”

“In one phone call with Ryan earlier this month, Trump told the House speaker that he had a problem with the bill. It wasn’t over Medicaid expansion, maternity coverage, deductibles or insurance premiums. Rather, it was that he didn’t like the word ‘buckets’ — which Ryan had been using to describe the parts of their plan. ‘I don’t like that word buckets. You throw trash in buckets. I don’t like that word,’ Trump said, according to two people familiar with the call. Trump preferred ‘phases.’ Ryan agreed and adopted the term.”

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https://politicalwire.com/2017/03/25/trump-didnt-like-health-care-bill/
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What Trump Didn't Like About the Health Care Bill (Original Post) DonViejo Mar 2017 OP
What a simipltian. Wellstone ruled Mar 2017 #1
Well, sheshe2 Mar 2017 #2
does he have oldtime dfl_er Mar 2017 #3

oldtime dfl_er

(6,931 posts)
3. does he have
Sat Mar 25, 2017, 01:20 PM
Mar 2017

any investments in health care or pharma? I think not. I think he was never interested in this bill because it did nothing for his finances.

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