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factfinder_77

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Thu Sep 14, 2017, 04:25 PM Sep 2017

Trump vows to veto Sanders' single-payer healthcare plan: 'A curse on the U.S. and its people'

Source: yahoo

President Trump to Republican senators: I told you so.

The commander in chief lamented on Thursday afternoon that the Republicans have been unable to follow through on their campaign promises of repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. In a series of tweets, he suggested this failure gave Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders an opening to advance his plan for a single-payer health care system, also known as Medicare for All, which Trump denounced as “a curse” on the United States and the American people.

But Trump assured fellow Republicans that he would save the country from this fate by vetoing any single-payer health care legislation that comes across his desk.

This is far from the first time Trump has chided Republicans in Congress for coming up short in their efforts toward health care reform or attacked Sanders for his Democratic Socialist ideals and proposals.

Earlier Thursday, aboard Air Force One from Fort Myers, Fla., to Washington, D.C., Trump criticized Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., for the healthcare defeat. In late July, McCain effectively killed the GOP replacement plan, known as the Health Care Freedom Act, by joining two other Republicans (Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska) who opposed the plan — ending in a 49-51 vote.

“It was a very unpleasant surprise,” Trump told reporters. “Now we have people talking about single-payer. So Republicans have to stick together better. We had the votes. John McCain changed his mind, pure and simple. If the Republicans don’t stick together then I’m going to have to do more and more.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-vows-veto-sanders-single-payer-healthcare-plan-curse-u-s-people-201114469.html

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Trump vows to veto Sanders' single-payer healthcare plan: 'A curse on the U.S. and its people' (Original Post) factfinder_77 Sep 2017 OP
Do you think the Bro's will go after T rump ? stonecutter357 Sep 2017 #1
Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa montanacowboy Sep 2017 #2
He won't have the opportunity. Now he is politically posturing on this subject as well. Trust Buster Sep 2017 #3
 

Trust Buster

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3. He won't have the opportunity. Now he is politically posturing on this subject as well.
Thu Sep 14, 2017, 04:32 PM
Sep 2017

No wonder our government doesn't accomplish anything anymore.

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