The Trump presidency is over, and Obamacare is still alive

[Music] the trump presidency is over and obamacare is still alive trump managed to accomplish a very little on health care despite republicans decade long obsession with repealing the affordable care act mere days before his 2016 election to the presidency donald trump boldly promised his voters when we win on november 8th and elect a republican congress we will be able to immediately repel and replace obamacare now trump is on his way out of the white house and healthcare law is still standing trump who had promised on the campaign trail to deliver great health care at a tiny fraction of the cost and it's going to be so easy quickly realize how wrong he was republican congressional attempts to repeal and replace the affordable care act consumed most of the trump's first year in office they wanted to deliver on a year's long obsession with undoing the previous president's signature legislative achievement the repeal ultimately failed with senator john mccain's thumbs down in july 2017. though republicans said they would make a second attempt that fall it quickly sputtered and never came up for a vote trump and republicans failed to figure how to satisfy the outsized promises that they made rather than make health insurance more affordable their plans would have shrunk federal assistance and hide premiums for millions rather than cover everybody as trump said he wanted to do millions of people would have lost their insurance rather than protected medicare as the president pledged he would their proposals would have cut hundreds of billions of dollars in spending and led to millions falling off its roles people with pre-existing conditions would have lost their eye and glad protections that obamacare had given them that they would not be denied coverage or charged a higher premium because of their medical history nobody knew health scare could be so complicated trump said just one month into his term the term white house paid the price for its miscalculations democrats campaigning heavily on preserving health care vaughn backed the house in 2018 mid-terms the gop senate majority was also diminished which gave democrats an opening to win back the chamber in 2020. joe biden pummeled term over his healthcare agenda and made the letter a one-term precedent not every president passes landmark health care bill as barack obama did but republicans swept into power four years ago having promised to fix what they said obama had broken trump said he would not only repeal and replace obamacare but he'd put into place ambitious plans to bring down drug prices you