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Bloomberg has a lesson for President Trump and national Republicans from Matt Bevin, the Republican governor of Kentucky: rebranding Obamacare might be easier than killing it.

Some Republican-friendly additions Kentucky lawmakers made to Obamacare while maintaining Medicaid expansion in the state:

Rebranding — the program is known as Kynect or Passport

Monthly premiums of $1 to $15, allowed to rise annually

$1,000 per year deductible, funded by the state

A requirement to work or volunteer for 20 hours each week

Why this matters: This could be a template for how the national battle for Obamacare might end up, our own David Nather wrote last week.

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Kentucky Republicans rebranded Obamacare and kept it

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The U.S. faces a range of health care flashpoints — unaffordable drugs, opioids, vaping — as we debate whether to adopt universal care. For now, the Affordable Care Act is the law of the land, but Republicans want to issue it a final death blow.

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