Speaker Paul Ryan Paul Davis RyanKenosha will be a good bellwether in 2020 At indoor rally, Pence says election runs through Wisconsin Juan Williams: Breaking down the debates MORE (R-Wis.) said Tuesday he was still hopeful Senate Republicans could pass ObamaCare repeal-and-replace legislation, a day after the latest version of the Senate bill collapsed.

“We’re hopeful that the Senate can take the pause it needs to take and move forward on this issue so we can get something done,” Ryan told reporters after meeting with rank-and-file Republicans at the Capitol Hill Club.

“I’m worried that ObamaCare will stand and the law will continue to collapse and people get hurt in the process.”

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After two additional GOP senators rejected the repeal-and-replace bill, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Addison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellMomentum growing among Republicans for Supreme Court vote before Election Day Trump expects to nominate woman to replace Ginsburg next week Video of Lindsey Graham arguing against nominating a Supreme Court justice in an election year goes viral MORE (R-Ky.) announced Monday night that the upper chamber would abandon that approach and take up a repeal-only bill that cleared Congress in 2015.

Ryan told lawmakers in the closed-door meeting that he planned to huddle with McConnell on healthcare strategy later Tuesday, sources said. GOP aides downplayed the gathering, saying the leaders meet regularly on a variety of issues.

The Speaker said House Republicans are “proud” of the repeal-and-replace bill they passed earlier this year. He urged his colleagues to give their Senate counterparts space to work out their own bill, and declined to comment about the repeal-only strategy.

“They are working through their process,” Ryan said. “I am not going to get ahead of the next step because frankly we just have to see what they can do and find out where it is we can go.”

And Ryan appeared to pour cold water on the idea of working with Democrats should the Senate repeal effort break down.

“I’m not going to foreclose any options. The challenge I see, though, is that the Democrats have not seemed interested in working on this. They don’t want to get us off the ObamaCare train,” Ryan said.

“They want to double down on a failed system that is in the middle of collapse. And they are more interested in a single-payer system, which means government-run healthcare. Government-run healthcare is not in our nation’s interest.”