Sum-Up: Obamacare and National Health Care Policy

Alex Azar, President Donald Trump's nominee to become Secretary of Health and Human Services, arrives to testify at a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Was... Alex Azar, President Donald Trump's nominee to become Secretary of Health and Human Services, arrives to testify at a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2017. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) MORE LESS

By Alice Ollstein

January 30, 2018 9:48 a.m.

Congress failed repeatedly to repeal Obamacare (ACA) in 2017, but succeeded in repealing the individual mandate and, through the latest short-term spending bill, in delaying several of Obamacare’s taxes. In 2018, with the midterms looming and lawmakers skittish, Republicans will likely move away from attacking health care programs through legislation and instead go after them through administrative regulation or, more specifically, deregulation.

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