The House Speaker wants Obamacare dead. The House Budget Chairman — a leading candidate for HHS secretary — wants Medicare reform. But all the focus on Republicans’ health strategies is ignoring the biggest elephant in the room: Donald Trump, a president-elect who’s spent more than a year bucking congressional Republicans — and may not share their priorities, two leading conservative thinkers tell POLITICO’s “Pulse Check” podcast.
“For all the times that the president-elect has expressed his desire to repeal and replace Obamacare … [he] campaigned on universal coverage,” said Avik Roy of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity. “That’s a very different set of principles … than you might expect from a generic Republican president-elect.”
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