Everyone knew what Donald Trump and the Republicans had in mind for health care when they were about to take power eight years ago, because they had announced their intentions repeatedly — and loudly.
Trump had spent the 2016 campaign vowing to repeal the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare. Republicans in Congress had voted repeatedly to do the same. Days after the election, they stood shoulder-to-shoulder in Washington and pledged to make repealing the law a top priority. And they proceeded to try to do just that, pushing a bill to kill the Affordable Care Act through the House only to come up one vote short in the Senate.
This time around, their intentions on health care are a lot less clear. But they may still have big plans.
During the 2024 campaign, Trump wrote several social media posts expressing renewed interest in repealing Obamacare. Pressed on specifics, he famously said during his televised debate with Vice President Kamala Harris that he had “concepts of a plan.”
