Trump still hopes to kill the Affordable Care Act – but that's not what he tells voters.
In 2016, presidential candidate Donald Trump promised voters he would “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act.
The Republican policy platform in 2016 called for repealing the ACA. The party doesn’t have a platform for 2020. The Trump campaign has published a list of goals for a second Trump term, but killing the ACA isn’t among the 7 bullet points on health care. Over the summer, Trump said he’d reveal a health care plan to replace Obamacare by the end of August. But he didn’t.
But there’s still one major threat to the ACA: a lawsuit filed by several Republican-led states in 2018, with backing from the White House. The suit claims the entire ACA is invalid because Congress changed part of it in 2017, by eliminating the penalty fee for those without coverage. The plaintiffs say the whole law should be invalidated, and the Trump administration has filed a brief in the case agreeing with the plaintiffs.
The fifth bullet point says Trump would “cover all pre-existing conditions.” That seems redundant and pointless, since the ACA already does what Trump claims he wants to do in the future. But this campaign promise presumes the Supreme Court strikes down the ACA, eliminating the law’s protections for patients with pre-existing conditions. If that happens, Trump would restore those protections in some other way.
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