President Trump is suggesting he will defer until after 2020 his push for a Republican healthcare plan to replace the Affordable Care Act.
Trump tweeted late Monday that Congress will vote on a GOP plan after the election,"when Republicans hold the Senate & win back the House."and his claims that the GOP would be the party of healthcare. They don't yet have a comprehensive plan to replace the law, known as"Obamacare."
Trump's effort to repeal President Obama's healthcare law narrowly failed in the Senate in 2017. And while Republicans gained Senate seats last fall, there's no indication that GOP senators want another fight over repealing"Obamacare," particularly not those up for reelection next year. Healthcare, especially protections for people with preexisting conditions, resonates with voters and helped Democrats in the November elections.
According to AP VoteCast, a survey of more than 115,000 midterm voters nationwide, nearly 4 in 10 Democratic voters identified healthcare as the most important among a list of key issues. A Quinnipiac University poll last week found 55% of Americans supporting the improvement and not the replacement of the nation's healthcare system.Still, Trump last week appeared to commit his party to a new push for a plan to replace the health law.
In his late-Monday tweets, Trump claimed Republicans are developing a plan with cheaper premiums and deductibles that"will be truly great HealthCare that will work for America."it wants the entire Affordable Care Act struck down, an outcome that could leave millions of people uninsured and reignite a winning political issue for Democrats.Analysis and breaking news from our award-winning journalists in Sacramento and Washington, D.C.
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