GOP Obamacare Plan Suffers Blow With Rejection by Key Republican
by
Billy House
February 27, 2017 7:55 PM
The leader of the largest group of House conservatives said Monday he couldn’t support the party’s existing Obamacare replacement strategy.
Representative Mark Walker, who chairs the 170-member Republican Study Committee, also said he won’t recommend his colleagues do so, either.
“There are serious problems with what appears to be our current path to repeal and replace Obamacare," Walker said in a statement, warning that the emerging GOP plan would appear to create a new, expensive entitlement program.
Walker’s announcement came a day before Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress, and on the same day that the president promised to offer “something special” on his health-care overhaul efforts.
But the comments from Walker are a potentially serious blow for the plan by Republican leaders to push through a bill in the coming weeks to repeal and replace the polarizing health-care law. Several conservatives have already voiced concerns about the strategy not going far enough to dismantle Obamacare, while other Republicans have been battered by constituents in town halls over the likelihood that the GOP’s replacement would insure fewer Americans.
The support of Walker, a North Carolina Republican, is important, given that the plan cannot be passed in the 435-seat House without almost unified Republican support, since no Democratic backing is likely.
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