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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that if the Supreme Court overturns the Affordable Care Act, Republicans will have a policy plan that is “far better."
Obamacare was "far too expensive for the people, not only for the country,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office during a press event Wednesday morning.
Trump also called President Barack Obama’s signature legislation a “disaster” and something “we can’t live with in this country.”
Trump has not provided details yet about what health care plan would replace the Affordable Care Act.
His comments Wednesday came two days after his administration called for the entirety of the ACA to be struck down.
Although the administration has called for changes to the ACA before, the announcement by the Justice Department on Monday was a significant change in policy, and represented an opportunity for Democrats to shift the conversation back toward health care.
Republicans have tried and failed to repeal the ACA dozens of times without a replacement in place, most recently in 2017. If the ACA were to land in the Supreme Court again, as the Trump administration hopes, it would be the court’s third time hearing a case related to the law's constitutionality.
CORRECTION (March 27, 1:10 p.m. ET): A previous version of this article misstated when the administration said it was seeking that the entire Affordable Care Act be struck down. It was Monday, not Tuesday.