How the Senate Health Care Bill Failed: G.O.P. Divisions and a Fed-Up President<br />By Monday night, as Mr. Trump was meeting with the group of Republican senators at the White House — not one of whom was on the fence about the bill — Mr. Moran<br />and Mr. Lee, two senators who were on the fence, issued statements saying they would not support it, a catastrophe for the White House.<br />They are not lazy or committing fraud.”<br />The effort by Senate Republican leaders to remake the nation’s health care system — which went well beyond the perimeters of Mr. Obama’s<br />health care law — was in retrospect doomed from the moment it began, even with the wind of an unlikely win in the House at their backs.<br />By JENNIFER STEINHAUER, GLENN THRUSH and ROBERT PEARJULY 18, 2017<br />WASHINGTON — President Trump was fed up with the grind of health care legislation,<br />and at a dinner with Republican senators on Monday at the White House, he let them know it.<br />“Yet the Senate bill would have cut hundreds of billions of dollars from this program, imposed an entirely new formula<br />and reduced the reimbursement rate below the cost of medical inflation.”<br />The changes, she added, “would have been made without the Senate holding a single hearing to evaluate<br />the consequences on some of our most vulnerable citizens, rural hospitals and nursing homes.”<br />Since his campaign, President Trump and the Republican Party have pushed hard for a repeal of the Affordable Care Act.
