President Trump predicted Friday that the American Health Care Act would pass when lawmakers vote on the Obamacare reform bill next week, and touted his meeting earlier in the day with skeptical members of the Republican Study Committee.
“We’re going to have great healthcare. It’s going to be passed, I believe. I think, substantially, pretty quickly,” Trump said during a joint appearance with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
“It’s coming together beautifully,” Trump said. “You have the conservative groups, you have other groups, everybody wants certain things.”
“In the end, we’re going to have a great healthcare plan,” he added.
The AHCA faces an uncertain future amid wavering Republican support in the House and Senate. The Trump administration has stressed that the bill presently making its way through House committees is just the first of three phases that make up its Obamacare repeal and replace strategy.
Trump on Friday told members of the RSC that he would give states more flexibility on how they can spend their Medicaid funding from the government, in a bid to get conservatives on board with the plan.
