President Trump urges senators to replace House healthcare bill

   

     President Donald Trump has urged Republican Senators to devise a more generous healthcare bill, in contrast to what he called a "mean" bill passed in the House last month.

    Trump had called the House bill a "great plan" when it passed by four votes but it was heavily criticised and was unlikely to get through the Senate.

He told 13 senators at a lunch that their version should be "kind".
    Repealing the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, was a key Trump poll pledge.
Sources present at the White House lunch meeting told Politico that President Trump said senators needed to "pass a bill that Republicans are able to more easily, defend".
   Although the bill gave the US President his first legislative win, it was criticised by both Democrats and Senate Republicans.