Harris Campaign Releases Report On What Donald Trump Could Do To Obamacare

The Kamala Harris presidential campaign just released a new health care plan.

It’s not her own plan, because she published that already as part of the broader economic agenda she first unveiled in late summer .

This time, it’s Donald Trump’s health care plan ― or, more precisely, what she and her team imagine that Trump would try to enact if he’s elected again.

The exercise is necessary, Harris advisers say, because health care access for many millions of Americans is at stake in the election, and Trump has sent out confusing, sometimes contradictory signals about what he would do.

He has said he still wants to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, for example, though he has not specified how. In his September debate with Harris, he said he only has “ concepts of a plan .”

Meanwhile, Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), has indicated recently Republicans would try to pursue a “deregulatory agenda” that, among other things, would not place people “into the same insurance pools.”

That is the same language Republicans used to describe their plans to repeal the Affordable Care Act, aka “Obamacare,” in 2017 when Trump was in office and spent most of his first year trying to get rid of the law.

That effort failed and provoked a strong political backlash , in no small part because of projections suggesting the number of Americans without insurance would rise by more than 10, 20 or even 30 million people depending on the bill.

The point of Monday’s paper from the Harris campaign is to remind people that Trump tried to repeal before ― and could try it again ― threatening health care access for the tens of millions who now depend on the Affordable Care Act.

Polls have shown repeatedly that such an effort