Health care politics Still, should Republicans retake the House and Donald Trump be reelected, it could breathe new life into the AHCA. (Photo: Shutterstock)

Everything old is new again—at least when it's a Republican plan to do away with the Affordable Care Act.

Fierce Healthcare reports that a "new" health care plan produced by the Republican Study Committee—a group of 145 House Republicans—looks an awful lot like the American Health Care Act, which Republicans passed in 2017 when they still held the House majority. And the AHCA was actually a big motivator behind voters' handing a loss of their majority to House Republicans.

Still, should Republicans retake the House and Donald Trump be reelected, it could breathe new life into the AHCA. In that case, here are some of the changes it would propose.

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Marlene Satter

Marlene Y. Satter has worked in and written about the financial industry for decades.