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Ross: Obamacare is here to stay, no matter what we end up calling it

Sep 28, 2020, 6:24 AM | Updated: Sep 30, 2020, 7:40 am

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Some voters are very worried that putting Judge Amy Coney Barrett on the Supreme Court would guarantee that President Trump gets his wish to kill Obamacare once and for all.

It鈥檚 true, things wouldn’t look good for the Affordable Care Act. But what you should know is that things actually look very good for key parts of it.

“I think a lot of the Affordable Care Act is now baked into the system,” Missouri Republican Senator Roy Blunt .

Sen. Blunt originally voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and would be happy to see it ruled unconstitutional 鈥 but listen to what he said the other day:

“Keeping people on their parents insurance until they鈥檙e 26, sure don鈥檛 see that being reversed; I don鈥檛 see pre-existing conditions being protected being reversed,” he noted.

Not to scare you, but that means all of us would have to have some kind of insurance. Now, Republicans won鈥檛 call it Obamacare. They would re-brand it, like prunes were re-branded as 鈥渄ried plums鈥 a few years ago.

But politicians can鈥檛 afford to kill it off completely because when pollsters talk to voters, they find most voters really hate the idea of being bankrupted by a serious illness. And there鈥檚 been a LOT of serious illness lately.

So Obamacare is baked in 鈥 except for the name. If Biden wins, it鈥檒l be called Obamacare; if Trump wins it will be called the Big Beautiful Health Plan Thought Up By Your Favorite President.

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