ELECTION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/OBAMACARE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We don’t know what will emerge as President Trump’s plan to replace Obamacare, which he has promised to unveil immediately after the 2020 elections. But he has recently endorsed several proposals, and they could provide clues. Over the last two weeks, he has sought to re-emphasize health care as an issue, after a set of bruising legislative defeats in 2017. He directed the Justice Department not to defend the Affordable Care Act against a legal challenge. And he issued statements and tweets calling for Republicans to become ‘the party of health care,’ at a moment when many of his party’s leaders had hoped to focus on different issues. He also began reprising various promises about what a future plan to repeal and replace parts of the Affordable Care Act might achieve. The plan, short on specifics, will come with ‘far lower premiums (costs) & deductibles,’ he said this week in a series of tweets.”
–Margot Sanger-Katz, “Trump Is Being Vague About What He Wants to Replace Obamacare. But There Are Clues.,” The New York Times online, April 5, 2019