As GOP health care plan collapses, Daines again supports repealing Obamacare without replacement
"I would support a repeal," Daines said Tuesday morning. "We have a health care system in this country that is collapsing on the individual market and we have a health care system that is producing financial outcomes at the state government level that are not sustainable."
Daines voted for repeal before in a 2015 effort that was vetoed by former President
But later Tuesday, three Republican senators,
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Daines was one of seven Republican senators who had dinner with Republican President
"Health care was certainly part of that discussion," Daines said. "We talked about the need to get the economy growing again and tax reform. We talked about the concerns of the
After Daines and the other senators left the dinner, news broke that Republican Sens.
On Tuesday morning, Daines said that while he supports a repeal, he wants to see
When the
Daines cited a story by the
"They promised that they would make it work," Sen.
Daines said that means
"We don't have two years to wait to take action in terms of a replacement plan. We've got to provide a place for those who are on Medicaid expansion to land so they have health care coverage, they have options, they have choices if this Obamacare collapses. ... It's important we have a federal law that provides a place for these Montanans to land so they can still have access to affordable health care."
Daines said the "collapse" of exchanges that sell insurance will continue until there's a replacement.
"If we look at what's happening in
In 2016, the three insurers that sell plans on the exchange in
At the time,
This year
At the start of July during a health care forum in
“All you have to do is threaten to defund the subsidies,” Benefis CEO
During a town hall conducted by phone last month, Daines told callers that in 2014 more than 30,000 Montanans were penalized by the
"Here's the shocking part of that data: 40 percent of those Montanans make incomes of less than
Critics of the data on fines, which was shared by several Republican senators in the past weeks, say that Medicaid expansion would have provided coverage to some of those who were fined and more updated data would show a decrease in fines.
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During the dinner with Trump, Daines said he and the six other senators had an hour-and-a-half discussion "across a wide range of topics."
The senator said he brought up the filibusterer rule in the
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On Tuesday morning, Daines called the
"These are archaic rules from the past that are creating, are going to create barriers for the
Daines also said Trump focused on increasing the pace at which
"I think one of my other takeaways from dinner last night was
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