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Center for Budget and Policy Priorities
Judith Solomon is senior vice president for health care policy at the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, which pursues politics designed to reduce poverty and inequality
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Judith Solomon
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FROM Judith Solomon
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Does Obamacare have a future after all? For six years, Republicans in Congress have voted to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, long dubbed "Obamacare." Now, with majorities in both Houses and Donald Trump in the White House, the process is beginning today. But in both houses, the GOP is divided. One side worries that supporters of President Trump may be among the millions who lose health insurance. The other says the new plan doesn't go far enough and complain its toughest provisions won’t take effect until 2020. They call it "Obamacare Light." Nobody knows the possible cost yet — and, as we hear, politics will be more important than substance.
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