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CNN anchor Dana Bash found it interesting that Republicans have managed to evade devising a replacement for The Affordable Health Care Act (Obamacare) since President Obama signed the plan into existence in 2010.
“It's kind of amazing that we're still talking about Obamacare. And it is also amazing that Republicans still — even though they don't like it — don’t have an alternative. We're going to go to break. But before we do, I want to go in the CNN inside politics wayback machine. Ten years ago, it is the Republican primary, one of the Republican primary debates. I'm asking then candidate Donald Trump (for his first term run] about his health care plan.”
“Will you talk a little bit more about your plan [for replacing Obamacare]?” Bash asked candidate Trump in the old footage.
“There’s going to be many different plans, because there's going to be competition,” Trump answered.
“Can you get into anything specific?” Bash pressed.
“There's going to be competition. There is going to be competition among all of the states and the insurance companies,” Trump repeated. “They're going to have many, many different plans.”
Unconvinced, Bash asked Trump if “there anything else you would like to add to that?”
“No, there's nothing to add. What's to add?” Trump asked impatiently.
“He's not alone,” Bash told the CNN panel after ending the clip. “Republicans have not come up with an alternative for Obamacare in, what, 15 years? So that is part of the story here.”