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3 years in, no sign of Trump's replacement for Obamacare

By A. MADHANI and R. for Medicare and Med-
ALONSO-ZALDIVAR icaid Services during the
Associated Press Obama administration.
WASHINGTON (AP) — As He's "deepening their fear
a candidate for the White of what they have to lose."
House, Donald Trump re- White House officials ar-
peatedly promised that gue that the president is
he would "immediately" improving the health care
replace President Barack system in other ways, with-
Obama's health care law out dismantling private
with a plan of his own that health care. White House
would provide "insurance spokesman Judd Deere
for everybody." Back then, noted Trump's signing of
Trump made it sound that the "Right-to-Try" act that
his plan — "much less expen- allows some patients fac-
sive and much better" than ing life-threatening diseas-
the Affordable Care Act — es to access unapproved
was imminent. And he put treatment, revamping the
drug companies on notice U.S. kidney donation sys-
that their pricing power no In this Dec. 24, 2019 photo, President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media following a tem and the FDA approv-
longer would be "politically Christmas Eve video teleconference with members of the military at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm ing more generic drugs as
protected." Nearly three Beach, Fla. key improvements. Trump
years after taking office, Associated Press has also launched a drive
Americans still are waiting up on Trump's watch, rising lion people, according to ends up frightening more to end the HIV/AIDS epi-
for Trump's big health insur- in 2018 for the first time in the Census Bureau. "Every people," said Andy Slavitt, demic.
ance reveal. Meantime the nearly a decade to 8.5% of time Trump utters the words who served as acting ad-
uninsured rate has gone the population, or 27.5 mil- ACA or Obamacare, he ministrator of the Centers Continued on Page 3