5 ways Trump is undermining Obamacare without the courts

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By Tami Luhby, CNN

Updated 8:00 AM ET, Sun July 7, 2019

Washington (CNN) - Obamacare is facing its next big court challenge this week, but regardless of what the judges decide, President Donald Trump has already succeeded in hobbling the landmark health reform law.

Trump has been trying to dismantle Obamacare from the first day he took office. Hours after his inauguration, he signed an executive order directing agencies to interpret regulations as loosely as possible and to minimize the financial burden of the law through waivers, exemptions or delays. But after the Republican-controlled Congress failed to repeal Obamacare in 2017, Trump unleashed a series of executive changes to further undermine the law.

Trump has repeatedly said his administration would unveil a plan to replace Obamacare, though Republican senators have distanced themselves from that promise. He told ABC News in June that he'll release a plan in the next two months.

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Now, the Department of Justice is joining a coalition of 18 Republican attorneys general and others who are arguing this week before a panel of three appellate judges in New Orleans that a district court judge in Texas was correct when he found Obamacare unconstitutional in December.

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