House Speaker Mike Johnson pledged “massive reform” of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which was signed into law more than 14 years ago, if Donald Trump is elected president, reopening a politically sensitive policy issue for Republicans a week before Election Day.
Johnson (R-Louisiana), who appeared at a campaign event Monday for a Republican House candidate in Pennsylvania, told attendees that GOP leaders are again weighing how to overhaul the 14-year-old law, which provides health coverage to tens of millions of Americans and has been a frequent target of Republican repeal efforts.
"Healthcare reform's going to be a big part of the agenda,” Johnson said, wearing a personalized jacket emblazoned with the Trump-Vance campaign logo. He added that a caucus of Republican physicians has shared proposals with him and that GOP leaders hope "to take a blowtorch to the regulatory state" and "fix things."
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