President Trump early Friday touted his effort to kill ObamaCare, promising that repealing and replacing the sweeping health care law “is moving fast!”
“Despite the long delays by the Democrats in finally approving Dr. Tom Price, the repeal and replacement of ObamaCare is moving fast!” he said in a tweet.
Price was confirmed this week as health and human services secretary and is expected to be the administration’s point man on ObamaCare replacement.
At a wide-ranging press conference Thursday, Trump signaled that he’d unveil his exact plan for ObamaCare soon.
“We’re doing ObamaCare, we’re in the final stages,” he told reporters at the White House. “So we will be submitting sometime in early March, mid-March.”
White House chief of staff Reince Priebus said presidential aides spent two hours with Price Thursday night discussing the issue.
Price will “quarterback our plans through the House and the Senate, and we’re finalizing that hopefully during the first week of March,” Priebus said on “Fox & Friends” Friday.
House Speaker Paul Ryan said he’d be making his ObamaCare plans public in weeks.
“After the House returns following the Presidents Day break, we intend to introduce legislation to repeal and replace ObamaCare,” he said at his own press conference Thursday.