PARKERSBURG — Sen. Joe Manchin urged colleagues again Monday to work together to fix problems with the Affordable Care Act rather than repeal the Obama-era health care plan.

“Come on guys, lets sit down and fix it,” Manchin, D-W.Va., said while speaking with reporters during a telephone conference Monday.

The Senate returned to work Monday and Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., may put the repeal of the Affordable Care Act on the agenda Tuesday for a procedural vote for further consideration.

Several versions of a Senate health care plan have come and gone after Republican senators, including Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, said they would not vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act without an alternative health care plan.

Amendments would be made on the floor of the Senate, but that’s not what should be done, Manchin said. Experts can testify before committees, he said.

It becomes a political issue on the floor of the Senate, Manchin said. Republicans have campaigned on repealing the Affordable Care Act, but have been unsuccessful numerous times despite majorities in both chambers of Congress.

Among the provisions in the Senate bill are an end of the individual mandate to buy health insurance, a phase-out of the federal funding for the Medicaid expansion and repeals of the taxes financing the Affordable Care as well as tax credits helping people buy insurance.

“I don’t think we should be repealing,” Manchin said.

Manchin also said he was uncertain what will be presented to the Senate from the Republican leadership. A repeal with a two-year period for replacement would be a “horrible situation” for people who would lose coverage, he said.

A peeved President Donald Trump browbeat Republican opponents of his party’s health care bill Monday, asserting that his predecessor’s signature overhaul has meant “death” and saying the Senate’s planned faceoff vote is their chance to keep their pledge to repeal it.

At the White House, Trump lambasted Democrats who helped enact the 2010 health care law and now uniformly oppose the GOP attempt to scrap and rewrite it.

“They run out and say, ‘Death, death, death,'” Trump said, with a backdrop of families that he said have encountered problems getting affordable, reliable medical coverage because of Obama’s statute. “Well, Obamacare is death. That’s the one that’s death.”

Some Democrats have said the GOP repeal effort would lead to death for patients who lose coverage.