GOP Should ‘Show Their Cards’ on Obamacare Redo, Obama Says
- Outgoing president speaks with Vox in webcast interview
- If a better plan is out there, ‘I’m for it,’ Obama says
U.S. President Barack Obama holds a year-end press conference in the White House in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 16, 2016.
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Republicans should “show their cards” with a better Obamacare replacement before taking steps to repeal the law, President Barack Obama said in an interview on his signature health program.
“Republicans have to go ahead and show their cards, if in fact they have a program that would genuinely work better,” he said Friday in a webcast interview with the online news outlet Vox in Washington. “If it works, I’m for it.”