Rand Paul: Trump 'fully supports my plan to replace Obamacare'
"I just spoke to [Trump] and he fully supports my plan to replace Obamacare the same day we repeal it," the Kentucky senator tweeted. "The time to act is now."
“I think it's imperative that Republicans do a replacement simultaneous to repeal,” Paul said. “If they don't, Obamacare continues to unravel.”
Trump had advocated for such an approach to repealing Obamacare following his electoral victory.
“We’re going to do it simultaneously. It’ll be just fine. That’s what I do. I do a good job,” the president-elect said in his first post-election interview with "60 Minutes" on Nov. 11. “We’re not going to have like a two-day period and we’re not going to have a two-year period where there’s nothing. It will be repealed and replaced. It’ll be great health care for much less money.”
Other Republican senators who have come out in recent days in favor of simultaneous repeal and replace include Bob Corker, Lamar Alexander, Susan Collins and Tom Cotton.
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President Barack Obama, meanwhile, has urged restraint, telling Republicans that repealing and not replacing the law would be "reckless."
"The question for Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell is, why is it that you feel obliged to repeal it before you show what it is that’s going to replace it," Obama told Vox in an interview Friday. "There’s been no real explanation about why you’d try to do this before the new president is inaugurated."
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