Senate Democrats are playing up an apparent split between President-elect Trump and congressional Republicans on how best to repeal and replace Obamacare, in a new video that shows each side has a different plan.
A video produced by Senate Democrats and released Friday morning shows Trump, surrounded by his children during an interview 60 Minutes interview, stating flatly that the Affordable Care Act would be ended and replaced all at once, and immediately.
“We are going to do it simultaneously – it will be just fine,” he says. “We’re not going to have like a two-day period or a two-year period where we have nothing.”
The video then cuts to quotes from congressional Republicans saying it will take a transition period to repeal and actually replace it.
“It is going to take us awhile to make that transition from the repeal to actually replacing it,” the video quotes Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, as saying in a Nov. 30 interview with the Washington Post.
Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., is quoted as saying the transition period would take years. “I do think there will be two- or three-year phase in about the replacement,” he said.
