President Trump said Thursday that despite media reports of Republican infighting over replacing ObamaCare, the GOP’s healthcare plan will “result in an attractive picture.”
“Despite that which you hear within the press, healthcare is coming along great. We are speaking with many groups and it will result in a beautiful picture!,” Trump tweeted.
Trump has been around full salesman mode this week talking in the bills the home proposed Monday that will dismantle President Obama’s signature healthcare policy.
Next Wednesday, he’ll head to Nashville for any stadium-sized event to rally support for the new GOP plan.
Trump and people in his administration have been making the rounds in Washington to encourage and, at times, cajole lawmakers and activists to obtain aboard.
In a conference at the White House on Wednesday, obama scolded a gathering of conservative groups who known the Republican plan as “ObamaCare Lite,” CNN reported on Thursday, citing sources at the meeting.
He warned the assembled – such as the Club for Growth, the Heritage Foundation, Americans for Prosperity, FreedomWorks and the Tea Party Patriots – they “are enhancing the other side” with their remarks concerning the GOP plan, based on the report.
But also, he opened himself up to a compromise, based on the report, on other aspects of the plan – including Medicaid expansion – that encouraged the particular groups.
“This really is going to be great. You’re will make it increased. I’m going to work hard to get it done,” Trump told the gathering of conservative leaders this week, CNN reported, citing sources who attended the hour-long meeting.
Trump, who was joined by White House advisers Steve Bannon and Kellyanne Conway and chief of staff Reince Priebus, also said he would pressure lawmakers opposing repeal and replace by campaigning against them within their home districts.
“Trump said he'll have football-stadium events in states where he won by 10-12 points and he will dare individuals to vote against him,” CNN reported.
He also said he believed that Sen. Rand Paul, probably the most vocal critics from the plan, will ultimately come to see things.
“I love him. He's a buddy. He's going to wind up voting for this,” Trump said concerning the Kentucky Republican.
The GOP-controlled House rolled out two bills on Monday to repeal and replace former President Obama’s signature health care plan.
But they have come under withering assault by some of GOP’s more conservative members who believe it doesn’t go far enough to overhaul ObamaCare.
The country’s largest medical and doctor groups – the Ama and the American Hospital Association – also have expressed their opposition, saying the GOP plan will result in countless Americans losing coverage.
