{"id":32091,"date":"2024-09-11T04:52:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T09:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=32091"},"modified":"2024-09-11T04:52:02","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T09:52:02","slug":"trump-on-obamacare-repeal-i-have-concepts-of-a-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=32091","title":{"rendered":"Trump on ObamaCare repeal: \u2018I have concepts of a plan\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Former President Trump said during Tuesday night\u2019s debate he was interested in trying to repeal ObamaCare again, but indicated he doesn\u2019t have a plan to replace it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cWe are working on things. We\u2019re going to do it. We\u2019re going to replace it,\u201d Trump said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Trump has railed against the health care law since his first presidential campaign, when many Republicans were issuing calls to \u201crepeal and replace\u201d the law.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Republicans were a single vote away from repealing the Affordable Care Act in 2017. The late Sen.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/john-mccain\/\"><u>John McCain\u2002<\/u><\/a>(R-Ariz.) broke with his party, along with Sens.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/susan-collins\/\"><u>Susan Collins\u2002<\/u><\/a>(R-Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), to give Democrats the three Republican votes needed to preserve the law.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">In addition, efforts backed by his administration to repeal parts of the law were rejected by Congress and the Supreme Court. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Ever since then, Trump has said he is in favor of trying to repeal former&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/barack-obama\/\"><u>President Obama\u2019s\u2002<\/u><\/a>signature law again, but also has a plan to make the law better because ObamaCare has been a failure and is costing Americans too much money.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Trump said at Tuesday\u2019s debate that he doesn\u2019t currently have a plan to replace ObamaCare if it were repealed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cI have concepts of a plan. I\u2019m not president right now,\u201d Trump said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Most Republicans in Congress have said they\u2019re&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/4535502-senate-republicans-trump-obamacare-repeal\/\"><u>not interested<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;in trying to repeal the law again, even if they regain control of the White House and Senate next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Biden officials said earlier Tuesday that nearly 50 million Americans have enrolled in ObamaCare insurance plans since 2014.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/4873254-trump-debate-obamacare-replacement\/\">Thehill<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Trump said during Tuesday night\u2019s debate he was interested in trying to repeal ObamaCare again, but indicated he doesn\u2019t have a plan to replace it.&nbsp; \u201cWe are working on things. We\u2019re going to do it. We\u2019re going to replace it,\u201d Trump said.&nbsp; Trump has railed against the health care law since his first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":32092,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5784],"tags":[30417,27469,1230],"class_list":["post-32091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-affordable-care-act","tag-obamacare","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32093,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32091\/revisions\/32093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}