President Donald Trump on Saturday promised a strong new health care plan for America at some point in the future, just over a day after his Justice Department called on the Supreme Court to kill the Affordable Care Act. Trump has long promised a replacement for the ACA, but has yet to come up with one. He promised when he first took office to “repeal and replace” it within 100 days of stepping into the White House. The timing of threatening to repeal the bill — which would leave 23 million people without health insurance — couldn’t be worse. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) slammed the Justice Department’s brief, saying it would “rip away” health care protections in the “dead of night” and in the “middle of a pandemic.”

Source: Huffington Post June 28, 2020 02:51 UTC