Law Professor Nathan Cortez: Tampering with Obamacare is like a game of Jenga

Tower Center Fellow Nathan Cortez, professor of law in leadership and Latino studies at Dedman School of Law, talked with KERA News about the future of the Affordable Care Act under President Trump and a Republican held Congress.

Republicans have called for the repeal of Obamacare since it was first passed in 2010. But Cortez told KERA’s Lauren Silverman it’s still too soon to tell what will happen.

“There’s a pretty wide range of possible outcomes right now, anything from burn it all down, full repeal… to very subtle changes, in which Republican House and Senate members and President Trump could claim that they’ve repealed it but really just got rid of a few unpopular provisions,” he said.

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