Trump: 'Nobody Knew That Health Care Could Be So Complicated' [View all]
Source: Talking Points Memo
By TIERNEY SNEED Published FEBRUARY 27, 2017, 11:23 AM EDT
President Donald Trump told a bipartisan group of governors at a White House reception Monday morning that GOP tax reform would have to wait for lawmakers to move on repealing Obamacare, cautioning that, "Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated."
"I have to tell you, it's an unbelievably complex subject," Trump said.
For health policy experts and Democrats who spent the last eight years overhauling the nation's health care system in the face of GOP intransigence, Trump's admission that health care is hard dripped with irony. Republicans, in the mean time, voted repeatedly to repeal the Affordable Care Act, but made little progress on settling on what their replacement would look like, a conundrum that is haunting them now.
Trump's comments come as the efforts by Republicans on Capitol Hill to dismantle the Affordable Care Act have been rife with disagreement. Trump himself has offered little guidance publicly when it comes to the approach he would like to see moving forward, beyond a vague promise that he would be offering his own Obamacare replacement plan.
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