‘This Is Not the Obamacare Repeal Bill We’ve Been Waiting For’
The GOP’s health-care replacement is a bill with few friends.
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.).
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When Paul Ryan released a draft of a bill to replace Obamacare on March 7, it didn’t exactly get a warm reception. And not just Democrats assailed it: GOP members of Congress mounted a savage attack. While President Donald Trump said he was “proud” to support it, most conservatives went out of their way to say how much they hated it.
“House Leadership plan is Obamacare Lite. It will not pass. Conservatives are not going to take it.”
–Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul in an early-morning tweet; Paul later said the bill was “dead on arrival” during an interview with Bloomberg TV