Ryan: ObamaCare will be law for ‘foreseeable future’

The bill, a cornerstone of Trump’s campaign and that of scores of new Republican lawmakers, went down.

The US House of Representatives, similar to the Lok Sabha of the Indian Parliament, has 435 members. Republicans retook control of the House in 2010 on a promise to restore “regular order”, letting bills work through committees and giving members time to absorb proposed amendments. “But it’s not insurmountable”, he told Fox News after Ryan canceled a vote on an Obamacare rollback bill.

Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan agreed, though he conceded that the defeat on health care was a setback.

Rep. Greg Walden of OR, the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee who helped to usher the GOP health care plan through the drafting process, agreed with Trump’s decision to cut off negotiations.

For Trump’s candid thoughts, political navel lint gazers probably will have to wait for his next Twitter session.

He warned that now Obamacare is going to stay, people would see a sudden rise in their insurance premium. “It’s imploding and soon will explode and it’s not going to be pretty”. There’s not much you can do about it. The 45-year-old graphic designer receives medication from an intravenous drip for a neurological disorder, getting the drugs that she says allow her to walk.

In an appearance from the Oval Office, Trump thanked Ryan who he said worked “very, very hard” and “was a team player”.

By repealing the 0.9 percent payroll tax on higher-income workers, the bill would push Medicare four years closer to financial insolvency and diminish the program’s capacity to pay for future services. In addition to the 5 million fewer people expected to be covered under Medicaid next year, the CBO projects 14 million fewer people would be enrolled in Medicaid by 2026 as states that would likely expand Medicaid under Obamacare chose not to do so under the Republican proposal.

By Friday afternoon, both Ryan and Trump had become convinced that the bill would not receive the 216 votes needed for passage – Trump would later say they were “10 to 15 votes short” – and chose to pull the bill rather than see it go down to defeat. “I feel better about the way this has gone through than maybe anything that’s happened since I’ve been here”.

Back in 2012, anti-tax lobbyist Grover Norquist summed up the prevailing sentiment among professional conservatives, when he said that it didn’t really matter who Republicans picked for president, so long as the party had Paul Ryan’s vision.

“We want a very big tax cut”. It was a very tight margin. If premiums fall significantly, more people may sign up, raising total spending on subsidies, CRFB said.

“The biggest challenge in health care right now, is the uncertainty”, she said. They weren’t going to give us a single vote so it was a very hard thing to do. “We can fix the individual market, and that is a good place to start”.

“I think the losers are Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer because now they own it”, he said. HCA Holdings, the largest USA hospital company, climbed $2.87, or 3.5 percent, to $86.04 and Community Health Systems jumped 84 cents, or 9.7 percent, to $9.54.

Trump told the trucker guests “I don’t want to spent too much time with you and then lose by one vote” by way of explaining why he was ending the photo-op to get back to Trumpcare wheeling and dealing.

“We believe some of the text and some of the things we’re being asked to consider at this point are not in enough of a form to make a good informed decision”, Meadows said.

President Donald Trump suggested Thursday that if the vote failed, he and congressional Republicans should move on to other issues.

Comprehensive tax reform is a policy goal so complex that it has defied successive Congresses and presidents since 1986 when it was last accomplished under former President Ronald Reagan.

He guaranteed a vote on Thursday (US time) that didn’t happen. Remember we had no Democrat support. On Friday, he spoke of pursuing tax reform, blamed Democrats for the majority Republicans being unable to garner enough support, and suggested returning to health care when Democrats “are ready”.