国际英语资讯:News Analysis: Obamas legacy in trouble as Trump seeks to repeal Obamacare_时事

国际英语资讯:News Analysis: Obamas legacy in trouble as Trump seeks to repeal Obamacare

"That would represent a stunning reversal for Obama," West said.

However, "several of these changes won't be phased in for several years and that gives Democrats a chance to fight the GOP changes," West said.

Julian Zelizer, professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University, wrote earlier this week on cnn's website that the vote to repeal and replace the Obamacare "demonstrates the serious threat that the president, when he is able to work in tandem with the Republican Congress, poses to President Obama's legacy."

"Despite the conventional wisdom that it is almost impossible to dismantle domestic programs once they are up and running, the House just took a big step toward doing so," Zelizer argued.

"This presidency is far from over. The stakes of what takes place in the next few months are enormous. Democrats should take this vote as a lesson that this White House and Congress can still pack a powerful punch," he contended.

Still, some experts noted that Trump's healthcare plan - or Trumpcare, as some are calling it - is being done within the guidelines outlined by the previous administration.

"I think Obama's legacy remains firmly in place because even the changes the Republicans are proposing are taking place within many of the outlines put in place by Obama, and the debate is over the aspects of Obamacare that are seen as costly and intrusive by GOP leaders and conservative activists, but increasingly popular amongst the public," Dan Mahaffee, senior vice president and director of policy at the Center for the study of Congress and the Presidency, told Xinhua.