{"id":69692,"date":"2017-03-25T16:22:52","date_gmt":"2017-03-25T20:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=69692"},"modified":"2017-03-25T16:24:05","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T20:24:05","slug":"obamacare-will-explode-warns-trump-after-republicans-pull-healthcare-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=69692","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Obamacare will explode\u2019 warns Trump after Republicans pull healthcare bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><div id=\"attachment_69693\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/58d69ffac46188825b8b456b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69693\" class=\"wp-image-69693\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/58d69ffac46188825b8b456b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/58d69ffac46188825b8b456b.jpg 900w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/58d69ffac46188825b8b456b-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/58d69ffac46188825b8b456b-768x427.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-69693\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trump made the claim in a tweet and in comments to a journalist. \u00a9 Carlos Barria \/ Reuters<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>RT.com<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump is recruiting the entire population of the US to help create a replacement for Obamacare, according to a tweet in which the president warns the healthcare act is a ticking time bomb.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__text text js-mediator-article\">\n<p>In the tweet sent Saturday, Trump warned <em>\u201cObamaCare will explode\u201d<\/em> but told people not to worry as <em>\u201cwe will all get together and piece together a great healthcare plan.\u201d<\/em> Trump\u2019s words imply that his own healthcare proposal, which was withdrawn on Friday after it failed to shore up enough votes in support, is no longer in the running.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ObamaCare will explode and we will all get together and piece together a great healthcare plan for THE PEOPLE. Do not worry!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/845645916732358656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 25, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Trump has supported \u201cexploding\u201d Obamacare, also known as The Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act, this week, telling the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/affordable-care-act-remains-law-of-the-land-but-trump-vows-to-explode-it\/2017\/03\/24\/4b7a2530-10c3-11e7-ab07-07d9f521f6b5_story.html?utm_term=.516baa48f44e\">Washington Post<\/a> \u201cThe best thing politically is to let Obamacare explode.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump has supported \u201cexploding\u201d Obamacare, also known as The Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act, this week, telling the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/affordable-care-act-remains-law-of-the-land-but-trump-vows-to-explode-it\/2017\/03\/24\/4b7a2530-10c3-11e7-ab07-07d9f521f6b5_story.html?utm_term=.516baa48f44e\">Washington Post<\/a> \u201cThe best thing politically is to let Obamacare explode.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump has supported \u201cexploding\u201d Obamacare, also known as The Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act, this week, telling the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/affordable-care-act-remains-law-of-the-land-but-trump-vows-to-explode-it\/2017\/03\/24\/4b7a2530-10c3-11e7-ab07-07d9f521f6b5_story.html?utm_term=.516baa48f44e\">Washington Post<\/a> \u201cThe best thing politically is to let Obamacare explode.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump distanced himself from increases in medical costs for those under the act, claiming it remains <em>\u201ctotally the property of the Democrats\u201d<\/em> and that <em>\u201cwhen people get a 200 percent increase next year or a 100 percent or 70 percent, that\u2019s their fault.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Some people used Trump\u2019s comments to remind him of a tweet he sent in 2013.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Just shows that you can have all the cards and lose if you don\u2019t know what you\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/286952264122396672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 3, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>That tweet came after Congress passed a Senate deal to avert the fiscal cliff, which saw then-President Barack Obama reach a compromise with Republicans on key promises he made during his election.<\/p>\n<p>The legacy of Obamacare, which Trump promised to repeal during the election, has proved difficult to escape for Republicans. Bernie Sanders, vocal in his opposition to the GOP\u2019s proposed replacement, praised its defeat and described it as <em>\u201cdisastrous.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Our victory in defeating the disastrous Trump-Ryan health care plan is the result of millions of Americans standing up and fighting back.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenSanders\/status\/845650530768769024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 25, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__text text js-mediator-article\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The important lesson to be learned from yesterday is that when we stand together, we win. Let&#39;s continue the fight.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenSanders\/status\/845662816581435392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 25, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Republicans were further embarrassed by the defeat when advertisements aired during several basketball games on Friday, thanking them for repealing Obamacare. The ads came just hours after House Speaker Paul Ryan <a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.com\/0fbe92d3eba049289a1b17201b6c93ac\/Health-care-defeat-is-a-brutal-loss-for-Speaker-Paul-Ryan?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&amp;utm_source=Twitter&amp;utm_medium=AP\">admitted<\/a><em>\u201cwe&#8217;re going to be living with Obamacare for the foreseeable future.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The ads were paid for by the conservative nonprofit group American Action Network, whose officials also run the Congressional Leadership Fund super PAC.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/382304-obamacare-trump-health-vote\/\">http:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/382304-obamacare-trump-health-vote\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"rtcode\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"rtcode\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","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-69692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69692","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=69692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}