Healthcare DIVE May 6, 2020
Rebecca Pifer

Dive Brief:

  • President Donald Trump reiterated his support Wednesday for repealing the Affordable Care Act, with a case that could do just that pending at the Supreme Court. An estimated 20 million Americans could lose health insurance at a time of unprecedented unemployment if the law was scrapped.
  • “We want to terminate healthcare under Obamacare and replace it,” Trump told the White House press pool on Wednesday, referring to a red state-led lawsuit declaring the ACA unconstitutional. The Trump administration has yet to provide an alternative to the decade-old law.
  • The remarks come as both the Democrat-led House of Representatives, and the 20 states petitioning in defense of the ACA, submitted briefs to the Supreme Court in support of...

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Topics: ACA (Affordable Care Act), Congress / White House, Govt Agencies, Insurance, Patient / Consumer, Payer, Provider, Public Exchange
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