“It’s hard to figure out,” said Sen. Chris Murphy.
“They literally are teeing this up as an issue for Democrats for the next year and a half. They’re not even making a laughable attempt to save the most popular parts of the Affordable Care Act,"
Republican reaction was all over the map. Some stood behind the president and said the lawsuit will force Congress to take up health care reform again. Senior senators Chuck Grassley and John Cornyn said the new position doesn’t matter because the courts, not Trump, will ultimately decide the lawsuit. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine expressed her “dismay” at the administration’s position and called it “very disappointing.
Launched by 20 Republican state attorneys general, the lawsuit argues that the entire ACA was rendered unconstitutional when Congress repealed the individual mandate tax penalty last year. In December, US District Judge Reed O’Connor agreed with the states inthat has been widely criticized by legal experts. Democratic attorneys general appealed the ruling and it now is before the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Republicans say the lawsuit will not lead to an end in pre-existing condition protections because Congress would be forced to pass a new law to replace the ACA before that happened. Last week at a rally in Ohio President Trump once againfor casting the decisive vote to kill Obamacare repeal in 2017. Trump said that McCain badly hurt the Republican Party and “we would have ended up making a great health care plan, frankly, with the Democrats because they would have had no choice.
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