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How Trump Is Doing Making Republicans “The Party Of Healthcare!” So Far
He’s enlisted three Senators, two of whom are physicians by training, one of whom once ran the biggest for-profit hospital chain in the country, to try and come up with something “spectacular”…
Wyoming’s John Barrasso and Louisiana’s Bill Cassidy are both MDs. They both voted for all three failed Republican plans to kill Obamacare. Cassidy co-wrote the last of the three with Trump’s new BFF Lindsey Graham. That’s the one that the late John McCain nixed with a last minute thumbs down.
Florida’s Rick Scott didn’t vote on any of the prior Republican proposals because he only just became a Senator. Prior to that he was Governor of Florida. Prior to that, Scott was a businessperson, who co-founded what became Columbia/HCA, which was at one time the largest operator of private hospitals in the country. It also paid $1.7-billion in penalties after charges of widespread fraud against the government, which was a record at the time. And Scott was forced to resign.
