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RSS FeedsHouse Republicans pull Trumpcare, millions get to keep their health care
(The Star Fashion & Style)

 
 

24 march 2017 21:06:22

 
House Republicans pull Trumpcare, millions get to keep their health care
(The Star Fashion & Style)
 


Obamacare has survived. And U.S. President Donald Trump has suffered a spectacular failure.Trump’s plan to replace Barack Obama’s health care law was withdrawn on Friday to avoid certain defeat in the House of Representatives vote that had been scheduled for the afternoon. Vote or not, the outcome is a massive defeat that may do lasting damage to Trump’s administration and that will likely reverberate through the elections in 2018 and 2020. Read the latest news on U.S. President Donald Trump“You can’t pretend and say this is a win for us,” Rep. Mark Walker told the New York Times. Their bill was broadly unpopular — with Democrats, with conservative groups, with doctors, with the public overall. But the outcome is still remarkable: a president known as a dealmaker losing the vote on his first significant piece of legislation, a momentous one at that, because of a rebellion from a faction of his own party, on one of the party’s signature issues.The loss weakens Trump from the outset of his presidency, calling into question his self-vaunted negotiating skills and his sway over Republicans in Congress. It emboldens the Democratic opposition in Washington and in the growing “resistance” movement around the country. It severely undermines the leadership of House Speaker Paul Ryan. And it means that every Republican will have to explain to voters back home why they could not manage, even with full party control of the presidency and Congress, to fulfil the “repeal and replace” promise they have run on for seven years.More tangibly, it lets millions of people keep their health insurance.The bill, called the American Health Care Act, would have resulted in 24 million fewer people having coverage than will be covered under Obamacare, according to estimates from the independent Congressional Budget Office. The poor would have been especially hard hit; the bill amounted to a 25 per cent cut ...


 
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