How to Stop Trump? Forget Russia, Focus on Health Care
It wasn’t supposed to be this way. For seven years, Republicans promised to “repeal and replace” Obamacare once they had one of their own in the White House. “It’s going to be so easy,” Donald Trump often said about it during the campaign. But instead of signing a GOP health care plan “that was so much better” than Barack Obama’s—another favorite Trump phrase—the president and congressional Republicans have struggled to pass their legislation.
By the end of June, one version of the GOP health care bill had barely passed the Republican-controlled House, even though the party has its largest majority in the chamber since 1928. In the Senate, Mitch McConnell, the majority leader from Kentucky known for his legislative wiles, was forced to delay the health care vote because his Republican colleagues were in open rebellion against the plan, which he and a handpicked coterie of senators had drafted quickly
