Local representatives react to health care bill failure

Moments later, House Speaker Paul Ryan announced that Republicans were nixing their high-stakes health care bill after failing to get enough support from within their own party.

Trump was served a cold dose of reality seven months later when he agreed with Speaker Paul RyanPaul RyanObamaCare defeat caps hard week for Trump GOP senator: I’m ready to work with Trump, Dems on healthcare GOP group ran ads thanking lawmakers for repealing ObamaCare after vote was cancelled MORE (R-Wis.) to abandon the first major legislative initiative of his presidency, a plan to replace ObamaCare, after it became clear it would fail on the House floor.

According to University of Utah political science professor James Curry, the measure was ultimately doomed by division within the Republican Party – a split that can be seen even within Utah’s all-Republican delegation.

‘The affair has been seen as deeply damaging to Mr Trump, who on day 64 of his presidency ought to have been enjoying an easy legislative win, galvanising his supporters and Republican colleagues, and using the momentum for his next project.

SIMON: Polls say, I believe, something like only 18 percent of the American people thought the Republican health care replacement was a good idea.

The President’s hallmark Obamacare repeal promise crashed and burned on the House floor.

. And that’s what happened here, that collision between their parallel universe of alternative facts and the reality, which is that the Affordable Care Act is working for so many people. (There are plenty of Republicans from red states and from more rural blue states such as ME who would join in the effort.) This puts Trump back in the position to defend his base, annoy the Republicans who wouldn’t pass his health-care bill and recapture his populist mantle. Understandably, a lot of sicker people who are more expensive to take care of came into the system.

The GOP health care bill would have ended enhanced funding for Medicaid expansion, which means millions of low-income adults would have lost their coverage in coming years.

A number of tweaks were made to the original legislation in an effort to muster votes. That study found a significant drop in depression and an increase in people’s self-reported health among those who randomly received Medicaid compared with those who did not.

Republicans often complained that they couldn’t do a tax overhaul when Obama was president.

Don’t tell that to House Republicans who have been struggling with the issue for years.

Certainly, the poor, thanks to Obamacare subsidies, have benefited from reduced or in many instances “free” health care. But if you want to make it last-and you don’t have 60 votes in the Senate-then you need to find a way to pay for it (or at least look like you did). What are the big questions that you have going forward?

House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi holds a news conference. Several moderate House Republicans later gathered in Speaker Ryan’s office. Like you said, the rest of the modernized world has figured it out, why can’t we?

As many have observed, Trump’s spin of the wheel was risky business.

House leaders had every intention of voting Thursday on the GOP health care bill, the seventh anniversary of when President Barack Obama passed the Affordable Care Act. Caucus members emerged from the meeting saying they still haven’t reached a point where they could support the AHCA.

The individual mandate – which requires almost all Americans to have coverage – remains in effect.

The CBO said the AHCA’s amendments would decrease the federal deficit by $150 billion in a decade.

Acknowledging their defeat on healthcare (while fecklessly trying to blame Democrats), Trump and his team on Friday said they would now place their focus on passing a controversial budget package and moving ahead with a major tax reform plan. Are you concerned it will collapse soon? “But for tomorrow, we must gird ourselves for the battles yet to come”.

“We have to have a vote tomorrow”. “By holding out for a ideal proposal that might never make it to the White House, the House has squandered an opportunity to pass realistic legislation that could get through the Senate and be signed into law by President Trump”.

U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton called it a “victory that belongs to every American who spoke out about this awful bill”.