[(Title)] Trump: Obamacare to be gone ‘pretty soon’.

President Trump said Thursday that Obamacare is being repealed  "piecemeal"  and that the healthcare law is  "going to be gone pretty soon." Trump delivered his comments at a Cabinet meeting after getting an update from Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta on the implementation of association health plans, which are cheaper than Obamacare insurance plans but offer fewer benefits.

从劳工部长阿克萨斯·阿科斯塔获得有关联合医疗计划执行情况的最新资料后，特朗普在内阁会议上发表了评论，称这个计划比奥巴马医保更便宜，但提供的福利较少。

Trump has repeatedly said the healthcare law is essentially dead even though Congress has failed to fully repeal it.

特朗普曾多次表示，尽管国会未能完全废除医疗保健法，该但医疗保健法已经基本失效。

"We actually got rid of Obamacare except for one vote … so we are doing it piecemeal,"  Trump said, referring to the narrow defeat of repeal in the Senate last year.  "It's going to be gone pretty soon."

特朗普提及去年在参议院申请废除该医保时的险胜：“除了一次投票外，我们实际上已经摆脱了奥巴马医治，接下来我们只需要进行逐步瓦解。”

Earlier this year, the Trump administration expanded the pool of people who can access association health plans, which allow individuals and small businesses to band together to buy insurance. Trump expanded the duration of short-term plans, which are also cheaper because they don't have to cover as many benefits as Obamacare plans, from 90 days to 12 months.

今年早些时候，特朗普政府扩大了可以获得联合健康计划的人群，允许个人和小企业联合购买保险。特朗普将短期计划的期限从90天延长到了12个月，而且这些计划的成本更低，因为它们覆盖的福利范围比奥巴马医改少。

Democrats have said that the moves to expand access to both plans, in addition to the repeal of the individual mandate financial penalty in 2019, are acts of  "sabotage"  intended to undermine the healthcare law.

民主党人表示，除了在2019年废除个人授权经济惩罚之外，扩大上述两项计划获取渠道的举措是“破坏”行为，旨在破坏医疗保健法。

Acosta said that a number of local chambers of commerce have started to get association health plans and are in the process of offering them to small businesses.

Acosta说，一些当地商会已经开始获得联合健康计划，并开始向小企业提供这些服务。他说：“这项规定虽然仅出台几周，但已经开始推进实施，我们相当兴奋。”

"For a rule that is just weeks old we are already seeing implementation and quite a bit of excitement,"  he said.