WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump on Wednesday heralded Republicans? tax bill for its provision repealing the Affordable Care Act?s individual mandate by incorrectly asserting that the health care law as a whole had been repealed.
?When the individual mandate is being repealed, that means Obamacare is being repealed,? Trump said at a Cabinet meeting that seemed to double as his airing of grievances before the holidays. ?We have essentially repealed Obamacare, and we will come up with something much better.?
This is demonstrably false. The law still remains, after Republicans? failed efforts to repeal it earlier this year. Republicans have devised ways to fundamentally weaken Obamacare?s provisions because they have not yet figured out how to repeal it outright, as HuffPost?s Jonathan Cohn reported.
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