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RSS FeedsTrump suffers spectacular defeat, millions of Americans get to keep their health care
(The Star Fashion & Style)

 
 

24 march 2017 23:10:29

 
Trump suffers spectacular defeat, millions of Americans 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President Donald Trump has suffered a spectacular failure.Trump’s plan to replace Barack Obama’s health care law was withdrawn on Friday to avoid certain defeat in the House of Representatives vote that had been scheduled for the afternoon.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“Obamacare is the law of the land and it will remain the law of the land until it’s replaced,” House Speaker Paul Ryan said in a news conference shortly after pulling the bill at Trump’s request. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump tried to blame Democrats for the defeat, saying “now they own Obamacare, they own it.” Trump said the health care system — which has been plagued by insurance companies pulling out of its “marketplaces” — would “explode” if left alone, raising the prospect that he may deliberately undermine its programs for political purposes. “The best thing that could happen is exactly what happened — watch,” Trump told the New York Times, echoing his repeated claim that Democrats would “beg” for his help in crafting a replacement plan if he let the law collapse. The repeal 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.He also predicted the Affordable Care Act would soon implode, forcing Democrats to join the Republicans at the negotiating table.The loss weakens Trump from the outset of hi ...


 
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