Don’t Let Trump Off the Obamacare Hook

Instead of embracing entitlements, Trump’s would-be challengers should press him on his failure to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

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Then-president Donald Trump speaks at the daily coronavirus task force briefing at the White House, April 18, 2020.

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Donald Trump may want to avoid talking about Obamacare during the 2024 presidential primaries, but his challengers would be unwise to grant that wish.

“The 2024 Republican primary is likely to be the first in which the Affordable Care Act is treated as settled law over a decade into its embattled existence,” Semafor’s Joseph Zeballos-Roig wrote last week. As evidence, he quoted Senator J. D. Vance (R., Ohio), who has already endorsed Trump. “I haven’t seen any evidence that people are looking to relitigate at this point a twelve-year-old law,” Vance said.

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Jason Hart

Jason Hart is a health- and labor-policy analyst in central Ohio.

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