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Examining The President’s Speech To Congress
Health Affairs Blog
On February 28, 2017, President Trump presented his first address to a joint session of Congress. One focus of his remarks was the repeal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which accounted for almost 400 words of his nearly 5,000 word speech. There had been hints that he might use the occasion of the address to lay out in detail his plan for repealing and replacing the ACA (which he referred to throughout as “Obamacare”). However, he confined himself to endorsing general principles.