Mike Johnson promises 'massive' changes to Obamacare if Trump wins: report
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) reportedly told a crowd this week that "massive" changes will be coming to health care in the country if Donald Trump defeats Vice President Kamala Harris next week.
“Health care reform’s going to be a big part of the agenda," he said during a campaign event in Pennsylvania for House candidate Ryan Mackenzie, according to footage obtained by NBC News. "When I say we’re going to have a very aggressive first 100 days agenda, we got a lot of things still on the table.
“No Obamacare?” an attendee asked.
“No Obamacare,” Johnson said, reportedly with an eye-roll. “The ACA is so deeply ingrained, we need massive reform to make this work and we got a lot of ideas on how to do that.”
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Johnson in 2017 supported former President Donald Trump’s repeal and replace plan, casting a decisive vote in passing the GOP's attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which would've stripped health coverage and protections for pre-existing conditions for millions of Americans.
Johnson has also repeatedly attacked, declaring: “Obamacare failed.”
A record number of Americans enrolled this year in the ACA Marketplace, with 21.3 million. This was about double the number of enrollees in 2020. As of May, just under 50 million people had enrolled for health care coverage using the marketplace at some point since its inception in 2014