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What happens to Covered California if Obamacare gets repealed?
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Jul 25, 2017
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What happens to Covered California if Obamacare gets repealed?
Even if a repeal doesn't happen, the president can gut the health law. Here's what Covered California executive director Peter Lee plans to do.
"We are now shifting our attention to changing the underlying delivery system to make it more cost effective and higher quality," says Peter Lee, executive director for Covered California, the state's health insurance marketplace.
"We are now shifting our attention to changing the underlying delivery system to make it more cost effective and higher quality," says Peter Lee, executive director for Covered California, the state's health insurance marketplace.
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Even if a repeal doesn't happen, the president can gut the health law. Here's what Covered California executive director Peter Lee plans to do.

Senate Republicans are set to vote again on the future of Obamacare Tuesday.

President Trump made his feelings known on Twitter, posting:

Today's vote is mainly procedural: it will allow the Senate to debate, but it's not entirely clear what bill they'll be debating. 

All this uncertainty around healthcare has led California's marketplace, Covered California, to look into options should a repeal take place. 

For more, Take Two spoke to Peter Lee, Executive Director for Covered California.