--- title: Donald Trump: Obamacare Could be Preserved in Part description: President-elect Donald Trump said he would consider keeping certain parts of the health care law after meeting with President Obama canonical: https://time.com/4568526/donald-trump-obamacare/ author: Katie Reilly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-11-11T22:16:13.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-07T06:54:05.836Z article:section: Politics og:title: Donald Trump Says He's Willing to Preserve Parts of Obamacare og:description: But his plan is widely considered unworkable og:url: https://time.com/4568526/donald-trump-obamacare/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt41253e9c11aa2c36/6988ae44ab6d779e936abef9/trump10.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5306 og:image:height: 2985 og:image:alt: President-Elect Trump And Vice President-Elect Pence Meet With House Speaker Paul Ryan On Capitol Hill og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donald Trump Says He's Willing to Preserve Parts of Obamacare twitter:description: But his plan is widely considered unworkable twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt41253e9c11aa2c36/6988ae44ab6d779e936abef9/trump10.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Donald Trump Says He's Willing to Preserve Parts of Obamacare > Sponsored content. 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President-elect Donald Trump, who had repeatedly campaigned on a promise to repeal the Affordable Care Act, said Friday that he would consider keeping certain parts of the health care law after meeting with President Obama at the White House._  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Nov 11, 2016 10:16 PM UTC President-elect Donald Trump, who had repeatedly campaigned on a promise to repeal the Affordable Care Act, said Friday that he would consider keeping certain parts of the health care law after meeting with President Obama at the White House.  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Nov 11, 2016 10:16 PM UTC President-elect Donald Trump, who had repeatedly campaigned on a promise to [repeal the Affordable Care Act](http://time.com/money/4564243/trump-obamacare-repeal-outcome/), said Friday that he would consider keeping certain parts of the health care law after [meeting with President Obama](http://time.com/4566616/white-house-offers-details-on-trump-obama-meeting/) at the White House this week. In his first interview since winning the presidential election, Trump [told the _Wall Street_ _Journal_](http://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trump-willing-to-keep-parts-of-health-law-1478895339?mg=id-wsj) he was willing to leave in place provisions that prohibit insurers from denying coverage to patients because of preexisting medical conditions and that allow parents to keep their children on their insurance plans until age 26. “I like those very much,” Trump said. Health policy experts widely agree that keeping in place the popular requirement that insurers cover everyone while also repealing the much less popular mandate that everyone buys insurance would be unworkable, because the latter helps pay for the former. The Affordable Care Act mandates that people pay a fee if they opt out of health insurance. More than [100,000 people signed up](http://time.com/4566700/obamacare-donald-trump-elected-record-signups/) for coverage under the Affordable Care Act on Wednesday, the day after Trump was elected, according to the Obama administration. Trump told the _Journal_ that health care reform is one of the priorities on which he wants to act “quickly” as president. He also said he is prioritizing unity across the country. “I want a country that loves each other,” said Trump, who made sexist and racist rhetoric a cornerstone of his campaign. “I want to stress that.” ## Transcript [ BLANK_AUDIO ] [ MUSIC ] Real change begins with immediately repealing and replacing Obamacare! 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