{"id":68126,"date":"2017-03-09T15:09:57","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T19:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=68126"},"modified":"2017-03-09T15:10:44","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T19:10:44","slug":"rand-pauls-obamacare-replacement-needs-to-be-taken-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=68126","title":{"rendered":"Rand Paul&#8217;s Obamacare Replacement Needs To Be Taken Seriously"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>TRUMP TWEETS SUPPORT FOR RAND PAUL HEALTHCARE BILL FOLLOWING INFOWARS APPEARANCE?<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>President says Kentucky senator knows &#8220;Obamacare is a disaster&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p>Adan Salazar | Infowars.com<\/p>\n<p><strong>President Donald Trump shot off a tweet to Kentucky Senator Rand Paul in reference to healthcare mere hours after the congressman appeared on The Alex Jones Show.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UxlCe3mUtJY\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The former Republican presidential candidate criticized the healthcare law revision presented by Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan last week, which Sen. Paul referred to as \u201cObamacare Lite.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-error\" data-lang=\"en\" data-twitter-extracted-i148908650916269107=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Th House leadership plan is Obamacare Lite. It will not pass. Conservarives are not going to take it. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FullRepeal?src=hash\">#FullRepeal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/RandPaul\/status\/839105959918190592\">March 7, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI think there are enough votes [in Congress]\u2026 to stop this thing, and then our hope is we\u2019ll vote on clean repeal. Let\u2019s just repeal Obamacare and forget trying to start new government programs,\u201d Sen. Paul said.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to questions whether Trump may be unaware of the potential Obamacare-lite disaster, Paul stated he spoke with the president Monday who expressed interest in negotiating the bills.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI talked to him yesterday. He called me up and we had a great conversation. He and I are getting along just well, which is very fine, and in that conversation he said he wanted to hear other ideas, and that really he understands the legislative process, and the Republican party is not monolithic \u2013 there are conservatives there are moderates there are big government Republicans and there\u2019s the establishment \u2013 and he more than anybody knows he needs to fight the establishment and the status quo. And he understands that there are a lot of people whispering in his ear from Washington that have been here forever that really aren\u2019t intent much on repealing the whole thing; they want to replace it with another program. But I think he\u2019s open to listening. He asked for my ideas on this and I think he truly did want to hear from some members that aren\u2019t happy with what\u2019s coming forward.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Paul asserted his first bill would repeal the current healthcare law, and stated his second bill would provide greater insurance flexibility for independent-minded people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have two different bills, one is the repeal\u2026 and then the second thing we are going to do is a replacement bill, we\u2019ve already done it, about a month ago it\u2019s called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/115th-congress\/senate-bill\/222\" target=\"_blank\">S.222<\/a> and in it there\u2019s something really exciting. And I\u2019ve met a lot of your listeners, a lot of people are small business owners independent minded people who work for themselves and my bill allows them to join in association.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Within hours of Paul discussing his bills with Alex Jones and various other media outlets, the president tweeted he was confident Sen. Paul would \u201ccome along with the new and great health care program because he knows Obamacare is a disaster.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-error\" data-lang=\"en\" data-twitter-extracted-i148908650916269107=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I feel sure that my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/RandPaul\">@RandPaul<\/a> will come along with the new and great health care program because he knows Obamacare is a disaster!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/839268048313929729\">March 8, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/trump-tweets-support-for-rand-paul-healthcare-bill-following-infowars-appearance\/\">http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/trump-tweets-support-for-rand-paul-healthcare-bill-following-infowars-appearance\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRUMP TWEETS SUPPORT FOR RAND PAUL HEALTHCARE BILL FOLLOWING INFOWARS APPEARANCE?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}