by dan diamond 11/14/16 05:01 pm est president barack obama said monday that president-elect donald trump is "pragmatic" <u+2014> and republicans' plan to repeal and replace obamacare will test that approach. "obviously, this has been the holy grail for republicans: we gotta kill obamacare," the president said at a post-election press conference. story continued below "but now that republicans are in charge, they gotta take a look" at how the law is saving the government money and benefiting millions of people <u+2014> both the 20 million covered directly by the law and millions more who receive insurance through employers and are getting extra protections under the health law, whether they recognize it or not. the president said that he'd applaud republicans' repeal-and-replace efforts if they can improve the nation's health care system. "if they can come up with something better that actually works, a year or two after they<u+2019>ve replaced the aca with their own plan, and 25 million people have health insurance and it's cheaper and better and running smoothly, i'll be the first one to say that's great," he said. "congratulations." by yousef saba but obama cautioned that trump and republicans must avoid rushing to repeal the law and potentially throwing the health care system into chaos and leaving people uncovered. if so, "we're going to have a problem," he said. "i think that's not going to be unique to me. i think the american people will respond that way." by bill scher by thomas wright by joshua zeitz by jack shafer
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