The director of the Office of Management and Budget said Sunday that House Republicans’ bill to repeal Obamacare is “a really nice framework” but the White House is “open to talking about” modifications.
“The bill here is the framework, it’s a really nice framework. We like it. It’s a good repeal and replacement bill,” Mick Mulvaney said on ABC’s “This Week.”
He said President Donald Trump “has looked at” the bill and thinks it will work.
“If the House thinks they can make it a little better, if the Senate thinks they can make it a little better, we are open to talking about those types of things,” Mulvaney said. “If the House sees fit to make the bill better, they’d certainly have the support of the White House.”
On Wednesday, Mulvaney said that Republicans wouldn’t use coverage numbers as the ultimate metric for the success of their proposal.
“Insurance is not really the end goal here, is it?” he said.
In January, however, President Donald Trump said that one of his goals was “insurance for everybody.”
And on Sunday, Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price said that he would define success under the bill as “more people covered than are covered right now.”
