Republicans Signal Desire to Keep Working on Health Care Reform
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House leaders opted not to hold a vote on the Republican health care bill when it became clear it did not have enough support to pass.
Some opponents feared the measure would force too many people to lose health coverage, while others said it did not go far enough in reforming Obama's Affordable Care Act.
House Speaker
'Too important'
"It is just too important," he said. "Obamacare is doing too much damage to families. And so we're going to get this right, and in the meantime, we're going to do all of our other work that we came here to do."
House Majority Leader
"Coming out of that conference I have more confidence that we will get it done," McCarthy said.
Was ready to move on
President
"I know that we're all going to make a deal on health care. That's such an easy one. So I have no doubt that that's going to happen very quickly," he said at a
Neither Trump nor the House leaders gave an indication about when a new health care bill would be ready for action. And along with their positive statements Tuesday there were still mixed signals about how much of a priority health care is to
Trump's legislative affairs director,
Senate Majority Leader
"We believe it will not work out well, but we'll see," McConnell said.
His comments are similar in sentiment to a tweet Trump wrote Saturday predicting "Obamacare will explode."
Republican costs
The independent
Trump and Republican leaders contended their plan, unlike Obamacare, will give people access to buy the coverage that meets their needs and that they can afford.
Obama repeatedly said in defending his program that if anyone, including
House Democratic Leader
Pelosi further called on Democratic lawmakers to submit as soon as possible any suggestions they have for improving the ACA.
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