Tuesday, June 13, 2017

Mike Murphy — House health-care bill is too ‘mean,’ Trump reportedly tells senators

President Donald Trump called the House-approved health-care bill “mean” and told a group of Republican senators that their bill should be “more generous,” according to reports Tuesday....
In Tuesday’s lunch with 15 Republican senators, both the Associated Press and CNN reported that Trump said the House bill did not do enough to protect individuals. “We need to be more generous, more kind,” he said, according to the AP....
Trump shows again that he is more politically savvy than his party. Can save them from themselves?

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House health-care bill is too ‘mean,’ Trump reportedly tells senators
Mike Murphy | Editor

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Congressional sources say President Donald Trump has told Republican senators that the House healthcare bill is "mean" and that the Senate version should be "more generous."
The remarks were a surprising critique of a Republican-written House measure whose passage Trump fought for and embraced. They also seem to undercut efforts by Senate conservatives to impose restrictions in their chamber’s legislation, such as curbing the Medicaid health care program for the poor and limiting the services insurers must cover....

2 comments:

Matt Franko said...

"We need to be more generous....."

Iow the advance tax credits are not big enough....

He must be reading my posts and comments here.... :o



Matt Franko said...

"" Trump said with media in the room. "Generous, kind, and with heart. That might mean adding additional money into it."


Iow he knows the tax credits are too low at only $4k max....