Trump wants a new Obamacare repeal plan. His administration is trying to talk him out of it.

By Paige Winfield Cunningham
June 19 at 7:41 AM

President Trump wants to ride to reelection on an Obamacare repeal-and-replace train – even though that train hit a dead end two years ago.

While the president is pushing for a specific plan he can take to on the campaign trail, staff at the White House Office of Management and Budget and at the Domestic Policy Council are instead working on a set of broad principles outlining the president's vision for health care, according to two people briefed on the matter.

While Trump said over the weekend that his administration is working on a new health-care plan, the president mostly stuck to criticizing Medicare-for-all and boasting about how Congress erased the Affordable Care Act's requirement to buy health coverage, in a speech last night in Orlando officially kicking off his reelection campaign.

"We got rid of the individual mandate, right?" Trump said. "How many people are happy? They no longer have to pay for the privilege of not paying for bad health insurance."

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