After GOP healthcare bill founders, Trump says, ‘(W)e’ll just let Obamacare fail’; McConnell perseveres
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New Hampshire Union Leader
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Senate Majority Leader
-- A Republican effort for a straight repeal of Obamacare failed Tuesday not long after
"We're probably in that position where we'll just let Obamacare fail," said President
The gridlock on a major
Senate Republican leader
McConnell's decision to hold a vote comes despite opposition from at least four
"
She and
Hassan said the Trump administration has sought to "sabotage the individual market by playing games with cost-sharing reductions" in Obamacare, which are meant to help those with lower income.
The
As the Union Leader reported in June,
Gov.
In late June, Sununu wrote to
"To be clear, reform without an adequate replacement is not an acceptable option," Sununu wrote. "Any repeal of the ACA must be simultaneous with a replacement."
Hassan said Tuesday that the
"This proposal would also end Medicaid expansion, which experts have called our single greatest tool in the fight against the heroin, fentanyl, and opioid crisis in
The effort for an Obamacare repeal fell flat when Sens.
"I do not think that it's going to be constructive to repeal a law that at this point is so interwoven within our health care system and then hope that over the next two years we will come up with some kind of replacement," Collins told reporters.
Shaheen, on the
Shaheen said the cost-sharing payments are designed to help low-income afford premiums and care. She said similar cost-sharing reduction language was in the
Shaheen said repeal means millions of Americans losing their health insurance, with likelihood of rural hospitals, including possible facilities in the Granite State, being forced to curtail care and potentially close.
"We can address the uncertainty by being clear that we're not going to replace the Affordable Care Act," she said.
Sen.
"What my friend from
(Material from Reuters news service was used in this report.)
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