Article snippet: Most popular on bostonglobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories WASHINGTON (AP) — Making a final push, President Donald Trump said he doesn’t think congressional Republicans are ‘‘that far off’’ on a health overhaul to replace ‘‘the dead carcass of Obamacare’’ and signaled that last-minute changes were coming to win enough support for passage. GOP critics expressed doubt over a successful vote this week. ‘‘We have a very good plan,’’ Trump said in an interview broadcast Sunday. Referring to Republican senators opposed to the bill, he said: ‘‘They want to get some points, I think they'll get some points.’’ Trump’s optimism comes amid the public opposition of five Republican senators so far to the Senate GOP plan that would scuttle much of former President Barack Obama’s health law. Unless those holdouts can be swayed, their numbers are more than enough to torpedo the measure developed in private by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and deliver a bitter defeat for the president. Trump did not indicate what types of changes may be in store, but affirmed that he had described a House-passed bill as ‘‘mean.’’ ‘‘I want to see a bill with heart,’’ he said, confirming a switch from his laudatory statements about the House bill at a Rose Garden ceremony with House GOP leaders last month. ‘‘Healthcare’s a very complicated subject from the standpoint that you move it this way, and this group doesn’t like ... Link to the full article to read more