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 dont stick together then Im going to have to do more and more.
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stonecutter357
(12,682 posts)montanacowboy
(6,052 posts)Projecting much?
The only curse on the American people is the Dump himself
Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)No wonder our government doesn't accomplish anything anymore.