Senate Republicans are waving Trump away from making another foray into health care reform, fearing he might repeat the mistakes he made in 2017 by getting sucked into another messy and unsuccessful fight over the Affordable Care Act — which millions of Americans now rely on. GOP lawmakers said Trump should focus instead on extending the tax cuts he signed into law at the end of 2017, which are due to expire at the end of next year.
(The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is a comprehensive reform law, enacted in 2010, that increases health insurance coverage for the uninsured and implements and moved us closer to the more socialistic health insurance market.)
“I think we’re teeing ourselves up for the big tax discussions at the beginning of this next Congress. That’s what I see happening, not health care,” Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), who in 2017 voted with Democrats to defeat an effort to repeal major pieces of the ACA, told The Hill.
