Citing Complicated Nature Of Replacement, Trump Walks Back Promised Deadline
After vowing to move quickly on replacing the health law, the president now says there should be a plan ready by the end of this year or in 2018.
The New York Times:
Trump Says Health Law Replacement May Not Be Ready Until Next Year
President Trump said in an interview that aired on Sunday that a replacement health care law was not likely to be ready until either the end of this year or in 2018, a major shift from promises by both him and Republican leaders to repeal and replace the law as soon as possible. (Landler, 2/5)
Politico:
Trump: Obamacare Replacement Might Take A Year
President Donald Trump walked back his recent vow that Obamacare would be replaced in short order, telling Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly that the process is “complicated” and “maybe it’ll take till sometime into next year.” "It statutorily takes a while to get," Trump said in a wide-ranging interview that aired Sunday during the Super Bowl pre-game show. "We’re going to be putting it in fairly soon, I think that yes I would like to say by the end of the year at least the rudiments, but we should have something within the year and the following year." (Palmeri, 2/5)
Bloomberg:
Trump Says Obamacare Replacement Could Take Until Next Year
Trump said in January that he’d put forward his plans for replacing the law, also called Obamacare, once Tom Price, his pick to run the Department of Health and Human Services, is confirmed. “We’re going to be submitting, as soon as our secretary is approved, almost simultaneously, shortly thereafter, a plan,” Trump said at a Jan. 11 press conference. “It’ll be repeal and replace. It will be essentially simultaneously.” (Tracer, 2/5)
