Republicans spend a LOT of time trying to get rid of the Affordanle Care Act/Obamacare…..
Now the guy who took over that party says he’s alright with it…
‘Make it Better?’
Huh?
“President Trump is not running to terminate the Affordable Care Act,” Karoline Leavitt, a Trump campaign spokeswoman, said in a statement. “He is running to make health care actually affordable.”
His running mate, JD Vance, echoed Mr. Trump’s in-between position when he told the news site NOTUS recently that past efforts to repeal the law were “fundamentally focused around the idea of fixing what was broken, not about stripping people’s health care away.”
“You’re certainly going to see efforts to reform the system,” Mr. Vance added.
The one-sidedness of the debate is a shift from the 2020 presidential campaign, when the Justice Department under Mr. Trump asked the Supreme Court to overturn the law. Although there were signs that year that Republican candidates were moving away from trying to repeal the act, Mr. Trump was still vowing to get rid of it, even as he failed to outline an alternative.
This year the Republican Party’s official platform, presented at the party’s convention last month in Milwaukee, included no mention of the Affordable Care Act, and few references to other health care reforms.
The absence of a Republican plan underscores how dramatically the politics of Obamacare have changed since the law was enacted, and since the Biden administration nearly doubled enrollment in its marketplaces through the use of subsidies that lowered the costs of plans.
About 21 million people signed up for plans in the most recent enrollment period, blowing by the previous record and elevating the health and political costs of a repeal.
Mr. Trump and Republican lawmakers have responded with what health policy experts call a strategy of ambiguity. After years of trying to get rid of the law, they have abandoned calls for a repeal but are broadly criticizing the costs and quality of plans on the Obamacare marketplaces. That approach amounts to a “shell game,” said Leslie Dach, a former adviser in the Obama and Biden health departments…..
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