Specifically, it’s promising House Republicans a solution to their concerns about drastically increasing insurance premiums for millions of older Americans, but leaving the Senate to figure out how to deliver it. The latter changes were aimed at far-right House members, who’ve complained that the bill wouldn’t do enough to curb federal entitlements. The House leadership simply holds out hope that the Senate will come up with a fix. It’s not to extend healthcare coverage, reduce the cost of care or otherwise make the healthcare system work better. Trump told House Republicans that voters wouldn’t forgive them if they failed to repeal and replace Obamacare.

Source: Los Angeles Times March 21, 2017 22:07 UTC