The Trump administration's 2019 budget is renewing calls for repealing and replacing former President Barack Obama's healthcare law. But there's little evidence that Republican leaders have the appetite for another battle over "Obamacare."
Repeal of the Affordable Care Act should happen "as soon as possible," say the budget documents.
The Obama health law would be replaced with legislation modeled after an ill-fated GOP bill whose lead authors were Sens. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said the legislation would leave millions more uninsured.
The budget calls for a program of block grants that states could use to set up their own programs for covering the uninsured.
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