Republicans Hint At Reigniting Obamacare Repeal After 2024 Elections

LOADING ERROR LOADING It sure sounds like another prominent Republican is looking to roll back key parts of the Affordable Care Act. Sen. Tom Cotton told NBC News on Tuesday night that Republicans could take up significant health care policy reforms if they emerge from the November election with governing majorities. “We’ll have an opportunity next year, when it comes time to extend the Trump tax cuts, to adopt new policies that again will make health care more affordable and more personalized,” said Cotton, who was speaking on behalf of former President Donald Trump’s campaign. Trump has not specified what kind of replacement he has in mind, saying only that he has “concepts of a plan.” But Vance has said Republicans were interested in a “deregulatory” agenda that would “promote more choice in our health care system and not have a one-size-fits-all approach that puts a lot of people into the same insurance pools.” That’s important, because talking about “personalizing” health insurance through a “deregulatory” agenda to avoid putting “people into the same insurance pools” is how Republicans have long described their health care agenda, which seeks to weaken or undo insurance rules that the Affordable Care Act put in place. But Republican leaders learned a lot in that effort, including how to write reforms that would weaken Affordable Care Act insurance rules while staying within the constraints of reconciliation’s parliamentary rules.