Trump endorser Bobby Jindal outlines how Republicans can ‘repeal Obamacare’

Former Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal outlined his suggestions for repealing the Affordable Care Act Monday, an issue that has been revived after former President Donald Trump called for alternatives to the program.

Jindal, who endorsed Trump’s 2024 run earlier this year, penned an op-ed for Fox News titled “4 ways to repeal Obamacare.”

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In the article, he acknowledged that “Obamacare has grown more popular and Republican voters are less excited about repealing the law.” Instead, Jindal wrote, Republicans want to discuss “more favorable political terrain like fiscal management and national security.”

In looking to move past the issue of healthcare, the former governor said conservatives overlook an opportunity to address affordability by making changes to Obamacare-era laws.

Jindal noted that several Democratic healthcare policies were passed in an incremental fashion, ultimately creating a healthcare system with large-scale government involvement. He equated the result with a “single-payer Medicare-for-All plan” akin to that which has previously been proposed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).

Likewise, he said, Republicans might find success by breaking an Obamacare replacement into incremental pieces and passing them individually. “A radical incrementalism strategy” would “empower patients and their providers rather than government bureaucrats,” according to the former governor.

Such a strategy should include passing “popular policies” that repeal various parts of the ACA, while also passing necessary reforms.

In his op-ed, Jindal suggests specific changes Republicans make should include decentralizing the “insurance regulatory responsibilities” so that people can “purchase any health coverage product” from a wider array of options, giving states “more flexibility to manage their Medicaid programs,” reducing the amount of “able-bodied adults and others who earned too much to qualify” for Medicaid, and making “exchange subsidies portable” so recipients can choose better-tailored alternatives.

He also suggested several “bipartisan policies” that should be pursued. Some of these include “ending dishonest billing, enacting site-neutral payments, encouraging more prescription drug competition and enforcing antitrust prohibitions on consolidation in the healthcare marketplace.”

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The ACA had not been discussed often on the 2024 campaign trail or in Congress, with much of the debate being left in the 2010s. That is, until Trump returned the issue to the campaign trail after posting on Truth Social last month that “the cost of Obamacare is out of control” and called for alternatives.

The move was immediately seized on by Democrats and President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign, who don’t plan to let up on the issue anytime soon, as repealing the ACA is increasingly unpopular among voters.