Manchin: Senate can do 'an awful lot' to improve healthcare bill

[TomCADem]

Source: The Hill

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) on Sunday said there is room for improvement in the plan unveiled by Senate Republicans to repeal and replace ObamaCare.

“There’s an awful lot that can be done to improve it,” Manchin told CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

Manchin said that if Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) does not have the votes to pass the legislation, then he should scrap the bill and allow bipartisan working groups to develop a new plan.

Manchin, who is up for reelection in 2018 in a state President Trump won by a large margin, characterized the GOP bill in the upper chamber as “even worse” than the legislation passed last month by the House.
Since the bill’s unveiling last week, five Senate Republicans have said they will vote “no” on the legislation.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/339368-manchin-senate-can-do-an-awful-lot-to-improve-healthcare-bill

[Matthew28]

1. No shit

They could pass a single payer bill for starters.

[COLGATE4]

2. Naw, he's just trying to have it both ways.

'Criticizing' the existing bill but still very willing to vote for it if there's anything in it for him.

[old guy]

3. Manchin?

Huh. Must not have been any real Dems available to interview.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

4. What a scumbag. Just like his daughter. I trust this family with others

health care as far as I can throw Commander Tiny Hands' fat ass.

[Honeycombe8]

5. The Republicans don't care what the Democrats have to say about it. Period.

It's pathetic, but that's the way it is.

[geek tragedy]

6. I trust Manchin on Medicaid, etc.

On civil rights and the environment, he's heinous, but he's committed to preserving Medicaid for his state.

[TomCADem]

7. Republicans Who Have Been Far More Mild in the Critiques of Trump...

...have been celebrated on this Board, but Manchin gets attacked for suggesting that Republicans scrap the bill. Amazing.

[Doug the Dem]

8. Joe Manchin