Health Care Battle Down To The Wire (Video & Polls)

It’s not exactly controversial to note that, when it comes to health-care policy, the president of the United States doesn’t know his ear from his elbow.  His comment last month that “Nobody knew health care could be so complicated!” was, by Trumpian standards, an impressively frank admission of ignorance—not merely of the U.S. health care system itself, but of several decades of political attempts to tame the beast.

President Donald Trump continues to court members the Conservative House Freedom Caucus, pushing them to support the House-led bill to replace Obamacare.

The president has scheduled a meeting with members of the caucus at the White House, just hours before the bill is scheduled for a vote. Trump wants to make a deal, appearing willing to make last minute changes to woo conservatives to support the measure.

Republicans control the White House and Congress, and yet the civil war that has come to define the party over the past several years rages on.

Donald Trump’s election in November was supposed to be the final puzzle piece Republicans needed to tackle reforms they championed—namely, repealing and replacing Obamacare. Now, faced with the first real chance of rolling back the law they have been campaigning against for years, Republicans find themselves mired in division.

Our bill guts the failing law and enacts conservative reform without pulling the rug out from under anyone.

The election of Donald Trump and a Republican Congress provides an opportunity: We can immediately halt the leftward drift of American social policy, while renewing prosperity through market-based, state-driven solutions that empower people instead of bureaucrats. This is the stuff of conservative dreams. But it will become reality only if Republicans keep the promises we have made.

That’s what the American Health Care Act is all about. It is the boldest and most conservative health-care legislation to come before Congress in decades. Bold because it dismantles the progressive health-care experiment and replaces it with a dynamic, patient-centered system. Conservative because it applies America’s founding principles—freedom, free enterprise and federalism—to the problems of the day.