Trump targets a bigger, cheaper and more popular Obamacare

Key Facts

• Since Republicans last attempted to repeal the Affordable Care Act, nine red and purple states have opted to expand Medicaid.
• | Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images The Obamacare that Donald Trump pledges to scrap in 2025 is not the same law that the GOP targeted during his first year in office — making it politically uncomfortable for the former president’s fellow Republicans to embrace a wholesale repeal.
• And, since Republicans last attempted to repeal the law, nine red and purple states have opted to expand Medicaid — many by popular vote — taking advantage of the enhanced federal funding Obamacare offers and extending coverage to millions of low-income people.
• Benedic Ippolito, a senior fellow at the conservative American Enterprise Institute who specializes in health care, said the impact of these changes is evident in the right’s lack of response to Trump’s call for another repeal.

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