Hey if the doctor says the GOP plan sucks… err I mean doesn’t hit the bar POTUS Donnie campaigned on, should we listen? Then again, people are mocking him for saying Liberal states can keep Obamacare if they want – PB/TK
Meet the GOP senator who wants to bridge the Obamacare divide – By Jennifer Haberkorn and Burgess Everett / June 4 2017
COVINGTON, La. — Sen. Bill Cassidy got cheers on late-night television for calling for an Obamacare replacement plan that would pass what he calls “the Jimmy Kimmel test” — that is, cover children like the comedian’s son recently born with a congenital heart defect.
But the first-term senator and physician is not seeing that support from his GOP colleagues.
“He knows of what he speaks,” said Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, the Senate’s No. 2 Republican. “But we’ve got to find a way to get behind a consensus bill.”
Cassidy is undeterred. To hear him tell it, he’s the one in Congress fighting to keep President Donald Trump’s promises to his base. On the campaign trail, Cassidy argues that Trump consistently promised a health care plan that would reduce premiums, eliminate mandates, ensure continuous coverage and protect people with pre-existing conditions. Any GOP plan, he says, needs to meet that bar
“I’ve been pretty out front and pretty bold and pretty national and pretty local, saying I want our bill to pass because our bill fulfills President Trump’s pledge to the voter,” Cassidy told 220 people packed into a town hall outside New Orleans last week. “Also, by the way, I think it is good public policy, and I think is good for the American people.”
Continue to politico.com article: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/04/cassidy-republicans-obamacare-divide-239099
