U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday stepped up his
fight for support on Republicans’ plan to dismantle Obamacare.
He wooed some
conservative lawmakers at the White House while legislation advanced toward a
possible vote in the House of Representatives by next week.
Republicans remain deeply divided over their
U.S. healthcare overhaul.
That was Trump’s first major legislative
initiative and one that aims to make good on his campaign pledge to repeal and
replace the healthcare plan put in place by his Democratic predecessor, Barack
Obama.
Trump met at the White House with 13 members
of the House Republican Study Committee, a large group of conservative
lawmakers seeking changes to Medicaid, the joint federal-state health insurance
programme for the poor.
“I am 100 per cent behind this,’’ Trump told
reporters after the meeting.
Trump said all the lawmakers in attendance now
supported the healthcare bill after previously questioning it.
“We made certain changes but frankly very
little,’’ he said.
U.S. Health Secretary Tom Price also did his
part to win over reluctant Republican lawmakers in a meeting at the Capitol.
The healthcare measure championed by House
Speaker Paul Ryan passed through a key House panel in spite of objections by
some conservatives who consider it too similar to the 2010 law that became
known as Obamacare.
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