Unic Press UK: The United States Senate, the upper chamber of the United States Congress, in a vote, 49-51, on Friday knocked down the plans by Donald Trump’s administration to repeal Obamacare, Barack Obama’s signature Health Care Act.
In a vote that seem best described as dramatic, three Republican senators Susan Collins, John McCain and Lisa Murkowski coalesced with the Democrats, voting against the measures to repeal/replace the Affordable Care Act, popularly called Obamacare.
Minutes after the vote, President Donald Trump reacted on Twitter.
3 Republicans and 48 Democrats let the American people down. As I said from the beginning, let ObamaCare implode, then deal. Watch!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 28, 2017
In a statement by John McCain, R-Arizona, that was issued on Friday after the vote, the seeming maverick politician said:
“From the beginning, I have believed that Obamacare should be repealed and replaced with a solution that increases competition, lowers costs, and improves care for the American people. The so-called ‘skinny repeal’ amendment the Senate voted on today would not accomplish those goals. While the amendment would have repealed some of Obamacare’s most burdensome regulations, it offered no replacement to actually reform our health care system and deliver affordable, quality health care to our citizens. I’ve stated time and time again that one of the major failures of Obamacare was that it was rammed through Congress by Democrats on a strict-party line basis without a single Republican vote… We must now return to the correct way of legislating and send the bill back to committee, hold hearings, receive input from both sides of aisle, heed the recommendations of nation’s governors, and produce a bill that finally delivers affordable health care for the American people. We must do the hard work our citizens expect of us and deserve.”
