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.”
In December the nation went through a destructive and ultimately pointless shutdown, with long-term consequences for real people. Now it looks as if we might go through something similar with health care. Do NOT cover this as some sort of a game, as a win for X and a loss for Y.
Go for it
I do not trust this lying POTUS!!! TRUMP GOP HAS NEVER BEEN HONEST!!!
Deplorable.
Is there anyone in the GOP that knows anything about implementing a healthcare plan? OK, Mitt Romney...but wait...
Best Obamacare Quote “.... as former president Barack Obama gently warned freshman Democrats to think carefully about the costs of their bold liberal proposals.” GoodLuck BarackObama
It’s like he don’t remember what happened in November
He ran on ridding us of Obamascam Just keeping promises
Still funny that ACA / Obamacare was a Republican plan invented by Republican think tanks and started by Mitt Romney when he was governor
Obamacare isn't for everyone. The democrats push this for the poor who will always be poor under their rule. Taxpayer subsidies are not realized by all who need health care, so its expensive. Obamacare needs to be repealed and replaced with fairness for all.
The Obamacare disaster needs to have a stake driven through it. Americans deserve to have health insurance that is cost effective due to competition, able to be purchased across state lines and free of democrat meddling
Trump 2020
He is inteligent
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SenSchumer
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Which dimensional chess is this?
FakeNews reason 57 we voted for Trump Obamacare.
Only Trump could come off arguably the best day of his Presidency by giving the Democrats a ton of ammo for 2020.
No more Russia....lol
Colonel Sanders didn't seem surprised. He'd love to rip healthcare away from sick ppl.
The issue you lost control of the House over? Should go great.
Omg! Finally! Something that appeals and supports the underprivileged
Unlike the Washington Post Trump focuses on the American people not Republicans Or democrats.
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