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Trump’s Obamacare Replacement Push Has Been Totally Abandoned
This as the GOP, and Trump in particular, are in court attempting to get the entirety of the ACA thrown out. And their plan for what would replace it remains that same as it's been for the past ten years: ???
Trump’s Obamacare Replacement Push Has Been Totally Abandoned
Back in March, President Donald Trump tasked a trio of Republican senators with crafting a “beautiful” new bill that would, once and for all, replace Obamacare with… something else. At the time, those lawmakers—Sens. Rick Scott (R-FL), John Barrasso (R-WY), and Bill Cassidy (R-LA)—didn’t exactly embrace the effort with open arms. But they didn’t dismiss it out of hand either, declaring they’d work with the White House on a number of health-care initiatives.
Three months later, it’s clear that replacing the Affordable Care Act could not be further from GOP senators’ list of top priorities. In brief interviews with The Daily Beast on Wednesday, the senators that Trump publicly tasked with finally nuking Obamacare were glad to talk about anything on health care—except for the bill that they’d be asked to write.
According to three people familiar with the situation, the Trump administration, including the president himself, have largely lost whatever interest there was in the push. Nowadays, in strategy and messaging discussions in the White House political operation, the 2020 campaign, and Trump-aligned outside groups, there is barely any discussion for making Obamacare replacement a top issue heading into 2020.
This as the GOP, and Trump in particular, are in court attempting to get the entirety of the ACA thrown out. And their plan for what would replace it remains that same as it's been for the past ten years: ???