President Trump interrupted his victory lap on the Mueller investigation's end to revive his call for Congress to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.
President Trump, flanked by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, left, and Sen. Roy Blunt, right, talked to reporters as he arrived for Senate Republicans' weekly lunch Tuesday.
“He led off on that and he spent a good bit of time on it. It’s clearly on his mind and it’s clear to me he wants us to take another run on it,” said Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana. “I thought that he’d immediately start talking about the Mueller report or China,” the country at the center of Trump’s trade agenda.
“It certainly gives you a great hook for talking about this, in this moment where you feel a little bit defeated, at least emotionally,” said Anna Greenberg, a Democratic pollster. Lawmakers said he only stipulated that any plan must cover people with preexisting conditions, though he offered no suggestions for alleviating the huge potential cost to insurers. Initially, Obamacare’s mandate that individuals purchase insurance gave companies new customers, offsetting their costs of accepting those with medical conditions. But Trump and Republicans opposed the mandate, which was repealed in the tax bill the party passed in 2017.
“I think he really feels like right now he has some wind at his back, its time to propose serious policy and work on it and healthcare is one he wants to work on,” Cramer said.“This was clearly a winning issue for the left in 2018,” said Carlos Curbelo, a Republican critic of Trump who lost his South Florida House seat. “It was the issue they ran a lot of generic campaigns on and that yielded them 40 House seats.
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