How the Senate Health Care Bill Failed: G.O.P. Divisions and a Fed-Up President
By Monday night, as Mr. Trump was meeting with the group of Republican senators at the White House — not one of whom was on the fence about the bill — Mr. Moran
and Mr. Lee, two senators who were on the fence, issued statements saying they would not support it, a catastrophe for the White House.
They are not lazy or committing fraud.”
The effort by Senate Republican leaders to remake the nation’s health care system — which went well beyond the perimeters of Mr. Obama’s
health care law — was in retrospect doomed from the moment it began, even with the wind of an unlikely win in the House at their backs.
By JENNIFER STEINHAUER, GLENN THRUSH and ROBERT PEARJULY 18, 2017
WASHINGTON — President Trump was fed up with the grind of health care legislation,
and at a dinner with Republican senators on Monday at the White House, he let them know it.
“Yet the Senate bill would have cut hundreds of billions of dollars from this program, imposed an entirely new formula
and reduced the reimbursement rate below the cost of medical inflation.”
The changes, she added, “would have been made without the Senate holding a single hearing to evaluate
the consequences on some of our most vulnerable citizens, rural hospitals and nursing homes.”
Since his campaign, President Trump and the Republican Party have pushed hard for a repeal of the Affordable Care Act.
