(Bloomberg Gadfly) -- If at first you don't succeed, threaten to blow up the health-care system and try again.

On Friday morning, President Donald Trump tweeted that if the Senate fails to pass its proposed bill to replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), then it should just repeal the ACA and figure out a replacement later.

The tweet seemed to reverse the president's previously held position that repeal and replacement should happen simultaneously.

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