"Even the Dems want to replace it, but with Medicare for all, which would cause 180 million Americans to lose their beloved private health insurance", Trump tweeted.
Congressional Republicans were caught off guard by Trump's rapid shift to focus on health care last week, which was set off by his abrupt decision to direct the Justice Department to intervene in a federal court case seeking to eliminate the ACA in its entirety on constitutional grounds.
Trump's tweets dialed back expectations that Republicans would be able to pass major health care legislation before the 2020 election, but his promise of a vote that would hinge on a Republican takeback of the House ensures nonetheless that health care will figure prominently in 2020. "Meantime, the US is doing better than ever & is respected again!" They don't yet have a comprehensive plan to replace the law, known as "Obamacare".
Trump later showed up a Senate Republican luncheon where he declared that they should be the "party of health care" and asked for assistance in writing a new bill. If Trump wins in court, there could be swift and widespread chaos and uncertainty in American health care - at least until an alternative system is put in place - as the array of changes to industry regulations, subsidies for low-income individuals and delivery system reforms would be undone.
Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate, said he told Trump on Monday that the party was not about to restart work on comprehensive healthcare legislation, noting they were unable to pass a plan when they controlled both chambers of Congress in the first two years of the Trump presidency. Healthcare, especially protections for people with pre-existing conditions, resonates with voters and helped Democrats last November.
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But the loss of Istanbul - if confirmed - would be especially significant as Erdogan served as as the city's mayor in the 1990s. In the days leading up to the vote, Erdogan held around 100 rallies across the country.
If ObamaCare is struck down, it would culminate years of attempts by Republicans to scuttle it, including as recently as 2017 when late Sen.
According to AP VoteCast, a survey of more than 115,000 midterm voters nationwide, almost 4 in 10 Democratic voters identified health care as the most important among a list of key issues. But Thune said, "you run into that wall of reality", of a divided Congress with Democrats in control of the House, which requires bipartisanship.
Various Republican senators including Lindsey Graham and Mitt Romney said they were in "preliminary talks" on an Affordable Care Act replacement, according to Romney's office, the Deseret News reported.
At the time, President Trump echoed McConnell's more measured tone after years of Republican attacks on Obamacare. Plus, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee moved to subpoena a former chief of White House security clearances, after claims that ineligible staffers received clearances.
"I wanted to delay it myself", Trump said during an event at the White House.
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