He said he would not accept a delay of more than a few weeks before a replacement plan was voted on. “Long to me would be weeks,” he said. “It won’t be repeal and then two years later go in with another plan.” That directly contradicts House Speaker Paul D. Ryan’s plans.
Ryan met privately with Trump transition officials Monday to discuss health-care reform and agreed with the president-elect that Obamacare is a disaster and needs to be repealed. However, he wasn’t too keen on Trump’s replacement plan. Rather than an immediate overhaul, the speaker argued Tuesday that lawmakers need time to reach a bipartisan solution on the issue, according to the Times.
But Trump appears immovable.
“It’s a catastrophic event,” he said. “I feel that repeal and replace have to be together, for very simply, I think that the Democrats should want to fix Obamacare. They cannot live with it, and they have to go together.”