Scott Walker’s Obamacare alternative chooses pragmatism over purity

Published August 18, 2015 10:00am ET



Gov. Scott Walker on Tuesday released a healthcare plan that would repeal and replace Obamacare, but in a way that aims to minimize disruption to the law’s current beneficiaries.

In offering his healthcare plan, Walker’s presidential campaign rejected an ideologically purer alternative in favor of a plan that he hopes will prove more politically viable by extending coverage to a wider cross-section of people than rival Republican plans.

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