VP Pence Responds on Whether Administration Should Repair Obamacare Instead of ‘Repeal and Replace’

Vice President Mike Pence responded to a top GOP senator’s suggestion that Republicans should “repair” Obamacare before replacing it, saying the Trump administration still favors repealing the law’s “most corrosive elements” while working on an “orderly” replacement.

ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos asked the vice president about a recent remark by Sen. Lamar Alexander, chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, comparing the health care law to an old bridge that needs replacement.

“You send in a rescue team and you go to work to repair it so that nobody else is hurt by it and you start to build a new bridge, and only when that new bridge is complete, people can drive safely across it, do you close the old bridge. When it’s complete, we can close the old bridge, but in the meantime, we repair it," Alexander said at a committee hearing Wednesday. “No one is talking about repealing anything until there is a concrete practical alternative to...