Echoing Some GOP Experts, Trump Suggests Willingness To Modify ACA

By Amy Lotven / November 11, 2016 at 7:56 PM
President-elect Donald Trump Friday (Nov. 11) said he's willing to consider “amending” rather than repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, expressing in his first post-election interview what many GOP health experts have been suggesting since Tuesday. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Trump said he would like to retain popular ACA provisions, including the ban on denying coverage due to pre-existing conditions and allowing children to stay on parents’ coverage until age 26, and revealed that President...


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