Trump tells lawmakers he expects deal 'very quickly' on healthcare

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Trump tells lawmakers he expects deal 'very quickly' on healthcare

REUTERS

 

U.S. President Donald Trump hosts a reception for Senators and their spouses at the East Room of the White House in Washington, U.S., March 28, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump told a group of senators on Tuesday that he expected lawmakers would be able to reach a deal on healthcare, without offering specifics on how they would do it or what had changed since a healthcare reform bill was pulled last week for insufficient support.

 

"I have no doubt that that's going to happen very quickly," Trump said at a bipartisan reception held for senators and their spouses at the White House.

 

"I think it's going to happen because we've all been promising - Democrat, Republican - we've all been promising that to the American people," he said.

 

A Republican plan backed by Trump to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system was pulled on Friday after it failed to garner enough support to pass the Republican-controlled House of Representatives.

 

Trump, a Republican, did not mention that failure at the reception nor did he offer specifics on how he planned for lawmakers to reach a consensus on a healthcare bill that would repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, familiarly known as Obamacare.

 

Trump told lawmakers at the reception that he would be talking about infrastructure and investing in the military, without offering a time frame or details.

 

"Hopefully, it will start being bipartisan, because everybody really wants the same thing. We want greatness for this country that we love," he said.

 

(Reporting by Ayesha Rascoe; Editing by Leslie Adler, Toni Reinhold)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2017-03-29

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Trump, a Republican, did not mention that failure at the reception nor did he offer specifics on how he planned for lawmakers to reach a consensus on a healthcare bill that would repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, familiarly known as Obamacare.

 

Trump lives in an alternate reality.  He's delusional and a habitual liar.

[Srikcir]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

U.S. President Donald Trump told a group of senators on Tuesday that he expected lawmakers would be able to reach a deal on healthcare, without offering specifics on how they would do it or what had changed since a healthcare reform bill was pulled last week for insufficient support.

Still without a clue of what was in the failed bill nor what needs specifically to be negotiated to get both House and Senate passage. And despite making very specific promises to the public of what HIS new healthcare bill will include or preserve, since election he has been silent - willingly to be led by his senior advisors, FOX TV and certain congressmen of what final bill will pass. Again.

[Emster23]

Donald just tell Congress to do what you promised: Everyone covered, cheaper and better. Let them figure out how to do, or just copy Canada or UK.

[Jingthing]

1 minute ago, Emster23 said:

Donald just tell Congress to do what you promised: Everyone covered, cheaper and better. Let them figure out how to do, or just copy Canada or UK.

What he promised is indeed impossible without nationalized health care. Chances of trump leading such an effort? Zero. Chances of the republican controlled congress approving of such an effort if he did? Zero.

 

Rabid white nationalists like trump and his rabidly shrinking support base aren't into copying other nations on anything.

 

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