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2 Republican Senators Feel
Single-Payer Healthcare Is Gaining Traction With Democrats
The ‘Repeal And Replace’
Obamacare Bill Is ‘Dead’
Democrats are increasingly committing to support sin- gle-payer healthcare, amid Republican attacks on Oba- maCare and pressure from their party’s left-wing base.
What was once considered only a progressive talking point has gained traction as more Democratic candidates have been willing to embrace government-funded health- care on the campaign trail and more House members have been signing onto the idea.
The idea hasn’t won uni- versal appeal in the party, but the spotlight has been shone on the concept of a govern- ment-run healthcare system as concerns mount over the Senate GOP’s plan to repeal and replace ObamaCare, which would lead to 22 mil-
debate over ObamaCare ends.
Other senators — such as Elizabeth Warren (D- Mass.) and Kirsten Gilli- brand (D-N.Y.), two potential 2020 contenders — are getting on board with a Medicare for All proposal. Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D- Wis.), who faces a tough re- election in a state won by President Trump, said she’s a “maybe” on Sanders’s plan but “antici- pates” supporting it, accord- ing to The Capital Times.
In the House, Rep. John Conyers Jr.’s (D-Mich.) Medicare for All bill has al- ready netted 113 co-sponsors — nearly double the number of co-sponsors the legislation garnered last congressional session.
The initial GOP bill to repeal and replace the nation's health law is probably "dead" and President Donald Trump's proposal to just repeal it ap- pears to be a "non-starter," two moderate Republican senators indicated Sunday as their party scrambled to salvage faltering legislation.
“We don't know what the plan is," said Sen. Bill Cas- sidy, R-La. "Clearly, the draft plan is dead. Is the serious rewrite plan dead? I don't know."
Sen. John McCain, R- Ariz., said it may now be time for Republicans to come up with a new proposal with sup- port from Democrats.
"I think my view is it's prob- ably going to be dead," Mc- Cain said of the GOP bill. If Democrats are included, he said, it doesn't mean "they con- trol it. It means they can have amendments considered. And even when they lose, then they're part of the process. That's what democracy is sup- posed to be all about."
Signaling his pessimism as well, Sen. Chuck Grassley wrote on Twitter late Saturday
Republican senators John McCain and Bill Cassidy feel the bill is in serious trouble.
that Republicans will lose their Senate majority if they don't pass health care legislation. The Iowa Republican said the party should be "ashamed" that it hasn't been able to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare.
The White House, anxious for a legislative victory on health care, insisted that it fully expects a GOP repeal and re- place bill to pass in the coming weeks that will fulfill Trump's pledge to end Obamacare. De- mocrats have ruled out negoti- ating with Republicans unless they work to fix the law, not re- peal it.
Congressman John Conyers has 113 c0-sponsors to Medicare For All Bill.
lion more Americans without insurance.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I- Vt.) championed the idea of universal healthcare during his insurgent presidential campaign, and he’ll introduce his single-payer plan once the
Former President Obama To Host
President Trump’s eld- est son, Donald Trump, Jr., was promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton before agreeing to meet with a Kremlin-con- nected Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign, accord- ing to three advisers to the White House briefed on the meeting and two others with knowledge of it.
The meeting was also at- tended by his campaign chairman at the time, Paul J. Manafort, and his son- in-law, Jared Kushner. Mr. Manafort and Mr. Kushner recently disclosed the meeting, though not its content, in confidential gov- ernment documents de- scribed to The New York Times.
The Times reported the ex-
Donald Trump, Jr. Met With Russian Lawyer After Father Became Nominee For President
Democratic Fundraiser This Week
Former President Barack Obama will headline a fundraiser in Washington, D.C., this week.
He’s set to appear Thursday at a closed-door event for the National Democratic Redis- tricting Committee, the Wash- ington Post reported.
Democratic National Com- mittee Chairman Tom Perez told the Post that Obama wants to help “build the bench” for the Democrats.
NDRC Executive Director, Kelly Ward would not say how much Obama’s appear- ance is expected to bring in, said he “still has such a micro- phone” to woo donors to invest in state-level races.
“That bully pulpit still very much rests with him,” Ward
DONALD J. TRUMP, JR.
The 44th president of the U. S. will host a fundraiser this week.
told the Post.
Mr. Obama wants to sup-
port the committee’s “efforts to address unfair gerrymandering practices that leave too many American voters feeling voice- less in the electoral process,” spokesman Kevin Lewis said.
istence of the meeting on Sat- urday. But in subsequent in- terviews, the advisers and others revealed the motiva- tion behind it.
The meeting — at Trump Tower on June 9, 2016, two weeks after Donald J. Trump clinched the Repub- lican nomination — points to the central question in fed-
eral investigations of the Kremlin’s meddling in the presidential election: whether the Trump cam- paign colluded with the Rus- sians. The accounts of the meeting represent the first public indication that at least some in the campaign were willing to accept Russian help.
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