Alexander: Trump called him on ObamaCare fix bill

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill




BY JESSIE HELLMANN - 10/18/17 09:27 AM EDT

Senate Health Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said President Trump called him Wednesday morning expressing optimism about the bipartisan health plan.

"He called me to say that number one, he wanted to be encouraging about the bipartisan agreement that Sen. [Patty] Murray and I announced yesterday," Alexander said at an Axios event Wednesday. "Number two, he intends to review it carefully to see if he wants to add anything to it."

Alexander and Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) announced Tuesday afternoon that they'd reached a deal to stabilize the insurance markets by funding ObamaCare's insurance payments for two years.

It would also change rules that insurers must meet under the health-care law as long as consumers are still offered “comparable” affordability.

Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/355977-alexander-trump-backs-obamacare-fix-bill

[underpants]

1. Well that'll kill it with Republicans

[brooklynite]

2. Sorry, you're not keeping up with the news...

Link to tweet

[highplainsdem]

3. Could easily get whiplash from watching Trump's flip-flops on this one...

[Doodley]

7. Trump has been bailed out all his life, from the banks, from those he has not

paid, from his rich Daddy, from every poor bastard who has done a deal with him.

[fleur-de-lisa]

4. "he intends to review it carefully"

That dumb shit can't even read!

[LiberalLovinLug]

8. Even if he gets his babysitter to read it for him

What he is saying by he wants to "review it carefully to see if he wants to add anything to it."
is to "add" that subsidies will not be funded, period.

Then send it back to congress, and explain how he is working with Democrats and Republicans and supports this bipartisan bill, plus his little tweek. And when Democrats rightfully object to his rewriting of their bill, he'll say it is they who are causing trouble, and backing out.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. Yet we all know, he is this

So.......

[kimbutgar]

6. Paul heartless ayn rand Ryan just called this bill DOA in the House today.

[Sunlei]

9. republicans will have to fund insurance plans subsidies or the States will have to start paying for

uninsured in hospitals across the lands. Costing States billions & billions & billions to care for poor uninsured sick people.

Of course Republicans could start taking a look at price gouging medical treatments and $500 a tablet medicines, but noooo, Republicans love to support price gouged insurance.