Trumpcare 2.0 efforts are already in shambles as Republicans point the finger at each other
It's Freedom Caucus vs. GOP leadership all over again in this second pass at repealing and replacing Obamacare
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President Donald Trump may have told NBC News on Monday that he is serious about reviving health care reform, but early reports suggest that the second attempt at a repeal-and-replace bill for the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, isn’t going much better than the initial effort.
Republican leaders are accusing the House Freedom Caucus of costing them votes by making unrealistic demands for the bill even as the more conservative faction insists it’s House Speaker Paul Ryan who is blocking the new White House bill, according to a report by Axios.
“While we haven’t picked up any votes yet, this concept is already showing signs of losing a ton of them,” one senior Republican source told Axios.
Meanwhile, a Freedom Caucus member told Axios that “we’ve never ever wanted to go after pre-existing conditions. That’s spin (well a lie) meant to undermine us. Pence said he supports our plan of reforming, and funding changes to high risk pools, specifically to deal with pre-existing conditions.”