--- title: Health Care: Transcript of President Trump's Comments description: President Trump said he was "very disappointed" that the effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act had failed in the Senate. canonical: https://time.com/4863088/read-president-trumps-comments-on-the-failure-of-the-senate-health-care-bill/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-07-18T17:39:48.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T16:36:29.491Z article:section: Politics og:title: Read Trump's Comments on the Failure of the Senate Health Care Bill og:description: A transcript of his reaction to the bill's failure. og:url: https://time.com/4863088/read-president-trumps-comments-on-the-failure-of-the-senate-health-care-bill/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt044e6ee9532689dc/6988d61fcf40a84126c4899a/gettyimages-818166722.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 594 og:image:height: 334 og:image:alt: U.S. President Donald Trump (C) speaks to members of the media as Vice President Mike Pence (L) and National Security Adviser H.R. 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McMaster (R) listen during a lunch with service members at the Roosevelt Room of the White House July 18, 2017 in Washington, DC. Alex Wong—2017 Getty Images by [Ryan Teague Beckwith](https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/) ## Ryan Teague Beckwith Jul 18, 2017 5:39 PM UTC President Trump said he was “very disappointed” that the effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act had [failed in the Senate](http://time.com/4862750/health-care-congress-repeal-delay/). Speaking in the Roosevelt Room in an impromptu meeting with reporters, Trump said [his new plan](http://time.com/4862426/trump-healthcare-twitter-obamacare/) was to “let Obamacare fail” and wait for Democrats to come forward. “I think we’re probably in that position where we’ll let Obamacare fail,” he said. “We’re not going to own it. I’m not going to own it. I can tell you the Republicans are not going to own it. We’ll let Obamacare fail and then the Democrats are going to come to us.” Read his full remarks on the [failure](http://time.com/4862315/health-care-bill-collapse-crossroads/?xid=homepage) of the Senate health care bill. --- > “” --- ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4863088/read-president-trumps-comments-on-the-failure-of-the-senate-health-care-bill/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4863088/read-president-trumps-comments-on-the-failure-of-the-senate-health-care-bill/"},"headline":"Read President Trump's Comments on the Failure of the Senate Health Care Bill","datePublished":"2017-07-18T17:39:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T16:36:29.491Z","description":"President Trump said he was \"very disappointed\" that the effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act had failed in the Senate.","url":"https://time.com/4863088/read-president-trumps-comments-on-the-failure-of-the-senate-health-care-bill/","keywords":["Congress","Health Care","Donald Trump","transcripts","Better Care Reconciliation Act"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt044e6ee9532689dc/6988d61fcf40a84126c4899a/gettyimages-818166722.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ryan Teague Beckwith","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt044e6ee9532689dc/6988d61fcf40a84126c4899a/gettyimages-818166722.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"U.S. President Donald Trump (C) speaks to members of the media as Vice President Mike Pence (L) and National Security Adviser H.R. 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