White House Signals Cruz-Lee May Save Healthcare Proposal This Summer
By Steve Berman | July 3, 2017, 04:00am | @stevengberman The best path for getting Obamacare repealed may lie with Sens. Ted Cruz and Mike Lee, two conservative leaders whose plan gained key White House backing Sunday.
President Trump’s director of legislative affairs, Marc Short, appeared on Fox News Sunday, offering an olive branch to potentially remove Obamacare’s protections for pre-existing conditions. “We hope it’s part of the process of bringing everybody together,” Short said, alluding to Cruz’s “Consumer Choice” proposal.
“We support Senator Cruz and Senator Lee’s efforts,” Short said. “This is similar to efforts that transpired in the House, and we think it’s perfectly appropriate, his amendment.”
Short dismissed a grandstanding call for compromise from Democrat Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. Democrats would love for the GOP to pass their own version of Obamacare, left essentially untouched. They’d love to see a replacement plan with no repeal versus a repeal with a later replacement.
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