Elizabeth Warren compares President Donald Trump to a child, says he should ‘get in line’ on health care

July 31--The US Senate is ready to move on from attempting to repeal the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, while President Donald Trump is "ready to have a tantrum," Sen. Elizabeth Warren said Monday.

Days after a bid to push through a "skinny repeal," or partial Obamacare repeal, failed on the Senate floor, Warren was in East Boston as part of her statewide tour of Massachusetts community health centers.

"Let's be clear. America does not want millions of people to lose health care coverage," Warren, D-Massachusetts, told reporters on Monday after her tour. "America does not want health insurance costs to go up. America wants us to make this health care system better."

She added: "I think that's where the Senate now needs to go and I think the president needs to get in line with that."

Warren said she backs changes in federal healthcare laws that would lower costs, such as allowing imported prescription drugs from Canada.

Healthcare is a "basic human right," Warren said.

Referring to the federal health insurance program for people 65 years and older Warren continued, "Medicare works for many people across this country. We should make Medicare work for all of us."

Before Warren's visit, President Trump took to Twitter to blast Congress, pressing them to follow through on repealing Obamacare and saying if it isn't, health care benefits should be taken away from members of Congress.

"Like any child who's throwing a tantrum, he doesn't care who gets hurt. And that is fundamentally wrong," Warren said.

"It is the job of the president of the United States to make life a little better for most Americans, not to drive up costs, not to break health care systems," she said. "When he says that he is going to blow up the Affordable Care Act, he's saying he's going to hurt people across this country just because he's mad. That is fundamentally wrong."

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