Former President Trump said during Tuesday night’s debate he was interested in trying to repeal ObamaCare again, but indicated he doesn’t have a plan to replace it.
“We are working on things. We’re going to do it. We’re going to replace it,” Trump said.
Trump has railed against the health care law since his first presidential campaign, when many Republicans were issuing calls to “repeal and replace” the law.
Republicans were a single vote away from repealing the Affordable Care Act in 2017. The late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) broke with his party, along with Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), to give Democrats the three Republican votes needed to preserve the law.
In addition, efforts backed by his administration to repeal parts of the law were rejected by Congress and the Supreme Court.
Ever since then, Trump has said he is in favor of trying to repeal former President Obama’s 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.
Trump said at Tuesday’s debate that he doesn’t currently have a plan to replace ObamaCare if it were repealed.
“I have concepts of a plan. I’m not president right now,” Trump said.
Most Republicans in Congress have said they’re not interested in trying to repeal the law again, even if they regain control of the White House and Senate next year.
Biden officials said earlier Tuesday that nearly 50 million Americans have enrolled in ObamaCare insurance plans since 2014.