8 February 2017 - A trio of House and Senate conservatives told reporters Wednesday that full repeal of the Affordable Care Act needs to happen in the spring, contradicting President Trump’s recent comments that repeal might come as late as 2018.

“Repeal needs to get done in the next few months so we can look forward,” said Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah). “It would be folly to assume that whatever comes next has to be in one giant bill. … It’s better to look at this in terms of bites at an apple.”

Lee was cutting against a rump of Republicans, including some party leaders, who had been trying to reframe repeal of the law as an attempt to “repair” it.

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