5 March 2017 - Republicans are racing to put the finishing touches on a health care plan that may need sweetening to avert an ugly clash with conservatives who have blasted the effort as secretive and substandard, as House leaders enter a three-week sink-or-swim stretch for unifying around a plan to repeal and replace Obamacare.
Vice President Mike Pence said the Trump administration and congressional Republican leaders were fine-tuning the plan over the weekend so they can begin to dismantle the Affordable Care Act in “just a matter of days.”
“Let me make you a promise: The Obamacare nightmare is about to end,” he said Friday in an appearance with Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price and House Speaker Paul D. Ryan in Janesville, Wisconsin.