trumps health care plan

(("i am going to ask congress to send me a bill to repeal and replace, finally, obamacare. it's a disaster. under senate rules, that bill can be passed with 51 votes. 51! meaning a republican congress and a republican president can save americans

from this disaster in a single afternoon.")) we're looking ahead to likely changes to helathcare-- once donald trump takes over as president. news 4's angela christoforos explains what changes you can expect-- and how they'll affect you. angela.

christy trump has repeatedly said that he plans to repeal and replace obamacare. it certainly won't happen overnight, and i spoke with a political science professor today to find out what it could mean for you when it does happen. ((the total repeal will require

either getting 60 votes in the senate or for the senate republicans to use the nuclear option and get rid of the filibuster.)) ub associate professor of political science jim battista says a total repeal and replace of obamacare is unlikely.

((republicans in the senate are probably going to be reluctant to totally eliminate the filibuster but they have to to get rid of obamacare completely. if they don't do that all they can use is reconciliation to touch the parts of it that raise and spend

money.)) battista says that means subsidies, or federal assistance would be taken away as well as tax penalities, and the tax surcharge that was added to high earners income taxes. ((who will benefit, people whose health insurance isn't going to change cause they already get it

through their employers like most americans do and they're going to get a little more income in their pocket because the tax surcharge is going to go away.)) but battista says it's a different story for people who went through the marketplace to sign up for

healthcare. ((people who are below median income but not actually poor. people who were taking part in the medicaid expansion in the states that had it, those people are going to lose health insurance.)) he says there would no longer be an obligation to

buy health insurance, but says getting rid of financial assistance from the federal government for people who need will come with consequences. ((fewer people are going to buy them because they're going to become more expensive.)) nothing would happen until

january at the earliest but battista says republicans could move this through fairly quickly how soon things could happen depends on how the repeal is written and structured. he says they could have a law passed by