In the wake of the Trump administration’s move to strike down Obamacare, neither the White House nor Republicans in Congress have offered new replacement plans.
By Toluse Olorunnipa and Toluse Olorunnipa White House reporter Email Bio Follow Seung Min Kim Seung Min Kim White House reporter Email Bio Follow March 26 at 6:58 PM A surprise move by the Trump administration aimed at striking down the Affordable Care Act thrust the partisan battle over health care into the middle of the 2020 campaign on Tuesday, handing Democrats a potential political gift on an issue that damaged Republicans badly in last year’s midterm elections.
But neither the White House nor Republicans in Congress have offered a new plan to replace the comprehensive Obama-era law, which was passed nearly a decade ago and has grown in popularity since Trump was elected. But Trump suggested he wants to revisit the issue, after two unsuccessful efforts to undo former president Barack Obama’s signature legislative achievement in 2017. Trump has long fumed over those failures, and as recently as last week was attacking the late senator John McCain for his pivotal role in quashing the effort.
But by resurfacing old battles about stripping away popular elements of the current health-care system, Trump is likely to embolden and unite Democrats who seek to make health care a top issue in 2020, said Amy Walter, national editor of the Cook Political Report. Democrats who have been divided in recent months over proposed Medicare-for-all legislation can now coalesce around the idea of protecting the ACA’s most popular provisions, she said.
Sen. Susan Collins , a moderate Republican who has voted against multiple bills dismantling the ACA, said Tuesday she was “very disappointed” in the administration’s legal position. “I think Obamacare should be gone,” he said. “We’ve got to cover people with preexisting conditions apart from Obamacare, which is what I talked about a lot.”
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