10/30/2024

House Speaker Johnson Vows Major Changes to ACA if Trump Wins the Election

Johnson has said Republicans would seek to overhaul the law

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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