Trump: Don’t Worry! O’care Will ‘Explode,’ We Will Pick Up The Pieces

President Donald Trump smiles during the inaugural luncheon at the Statuary Hall in the Capitol, Friday, Jan. 20, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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President Donald Trump tweeted Saturday for the first time about the Republicans’ failure to bring their health care bill up for a vote in the House, telling Americans not to worry but that Obamacare would “explode.”

The tweet echoes what Trump has said about the Affordable Care Act in the past, often remarking in the process of trying to pass the American Health Care Act that the Republicans were doing Democrats a favor and maybe should just let Obamacare “implode” and make Democrats “own it.”

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  1. Avatar for pshah pshah says:

    Ok. Walk me through this.

    If Obamacare fails, it falls to the Republicans to come up with something else. And they’ve just proven they can’t govern. So then what?

    Best thing for them is to hold their noses and patch up Obamacare. Meanwhile, Dems should scream for the public option.

    It’s sort of ironic that the Hastart rule has put them in shackles and they’re unable to escape its viselike grip. All they have to do is work with Dems…

  2. What an odious piece of shit.

  3. the pieces that you’ll ‘pick up’ will be from mangled bodies that get left behind because you think access to actual health care is a joke…

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