White House Losing Interest In Promised Health Care Overhaul

By Ariel Cohen / September 12, 2019 at 6:20 PM
Lawmakers and administration officials are slowly backing away from the White House’s promise to roll out a large-scale Affordable Care Act replacement plan and are instead saying the president is focusing on smaller-scale items such as drug pricing and surprise billing, and will take another look at protecting coverage for preexisting conditions if the courts overturn the health law. Also, going into the 2020 campaign, Republican advisors say Trump is smart to run on his first-term accomplishments and to bash...


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