President-elect Donald Trump outlined some pieces of hishealth-care program, largely following ideas he laid out during hiscampaign, from a repeal of Obamacare, his predecessor’s signaturehealth law, to language indicating opposition to abortion.

The brief, 310-word plan gives few details about how Trump willreplace the Affordable Care Act, or ACA, except that itwould include health savings accounts, and an ability for insurersto sell coverage across state lines.

The document, posted Thursday on the presidential transitionwebsite, is the first look at Trump’s plan since the election. Itincludes protecting “innocent human life from conception to naturaldeath” and gives states a big role in regulating healthinsurance and in running their Medicaid health-insurance programsfor the poor.

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