Trump releases plan for replacing Obamacare

Donald Trump unveiled a batch of health care policy proposals Wednesday after facing criticism for failing to provide a credible plan for replacing Obamacare. He calls for Medicaid to be transformed into a state block grant program and for the tax exemption on employer-based health insurance plans to be extended to individuals who purchase coverage on their own — both longstanding GOP ideas. Trump would also allow prescription drugs to be imported and for full transparency of health care pricing, although he offered few details about how that — or any of the proposals — might work. Conspicuously missing from Trump’s new health care proposal is any mention of allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices with pharmaceutical companies — a longstanding Democratic idea reviled by Republicans.