Trump budget leaves place holder for Obamacare replacement rather than repeal plan

Published February 10, 2020 7:39pm ET



President Trump’s fiscal year 2021 budget proposal doesn’t call for a specific backup plan to replace Obamacare in case the lawsuit his administration supports to throw out the healthcare law were to be successful.

The budget request, released Monday, instead creates a place holder allowance for the “president’s health reform vision” of almost $600 billion to spend from 2021 to 2030. The document stands in contrast to the two previous years when Trump endorsed a Republican bill, which became commonly known as “Graham-Cassidy,” to turn federal funding over to states so each one could choose how to operate its healthcare system.

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