President Trump is "very supportive" of the Senate's new health care bill - giving it a major thumbs up on Twitter Thursday night. "And small tweaks over the course of the next couple weeks, under the guise of making these bills easier to stomach, can not change the fundamental meanness at the core of this legislation", Obama said in the Facebook post. It is a tax cut that will make very rich people even richer while leaving very sick people without the health insurance that they need.
President Donald Trump at the Congressional Picnic on the South Lawn of the White House on June 22. A version of the bill, the American Health Care Act, passed through the House of Representatives in May.
On Wednesday night, he told a crowd in Cedar Rapids that he had been asking senators to "add some money" to the bill in the attempt to give it some "heart".
"Obamacare isn't working by almost any measure, it is failed", he explained on the Senate floor.
Meanwhile, tax-credits for middle-income Americans and the elderly shrink substantially from the current Obamacare subsidies.
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Republican Senators are planning to vote on the bill before their July 4th recess. To pass the bill, Mr McConnell can only afford to lose two "yeas".
However, according to NBC News, some key components of Obamacare will remain unchanged, such as protecting individuals with pre-existing conditions, and adults (up to age 26) will be able to maintain their parents' insurance coverage.
The response to the Senate plan released Thursday was virtually identical to the unanimous disdain shown this spring for the House Republicans' American Health Care Act.
In a joint statement, the four senators said, "Currently, for a variety of reasons, we are not ready to vote for this bill, but we are open to negotiation and obtaining more information before it is brought to the floor". "I think it's a bad idea when you rely on a small percentage of wealthy people for health care for other people", said Jason Clark, the chairman of the San Francisco Republican Party.
Florida Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson, who's up for re-election next year, blasted the GOP legislation and the way it was drafted.
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