Trump doesn't care what's in the health care bill -- all he wants is a "win".
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JULY 19, 2017
A NOTE FROM FRED
 
The fight over health care legislation has been a classic example of how dysfunctional our political system has become.

President Trump doesn’t care what is in the legislation or that it completely counters his stated goal this year of “insurance for everybody”.

All Trump wants is a “win”. 

House Republicans insisted on passing “repeal and replace” health care legislation that had the support of only 21 percent of Americans by the time it passed. Trump praised the House bill to the sky at a Rose Garden ceremony. Two months later he called it a “mean” bill. By the end of June, only 16 percent of the public approved the “repeal and replace” legislation as the Senate got ready to consider its version of the legislation.

Throughout this process, House and Senate Republican leaders have insisted on shoving a wholly partisan bill down the throats of the American people who overwhelmingly have rejected this legislation. If not for a few Republican Senators, led by a courageous Senator Susan Collins of Maine, they would have already succeeded. But they are currently blocked, at least for now, although the fight is by no means over.

This is simply no way for our government to function. In the past, fundamental issues like civil rights, taxes, voting rights, and health care involved bipartisan efforts and were never enacted over the overwhelming objections of the American people.

Hopefully we can get back to that kind of governing in our country – at some point down the road.

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By: Fred Wertheimer (@FredWertheimer) and Jackie Howell. Follow The Political Money Report on Twitter (@Political_Money)
 
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