Donald Trump’s running mate Mike Pence said Tuesday that there's a familiar model for killing off the Affordable Care Act: The Samsung Galaxy 7 Note smartphone.

He offered a new attack on Obamacare as he introduced Trump himself at a rally in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, highlighting the Republican candidate’s case against President Obama’s signature legislation – and as part of a concerted push to take electoral advantage of soaring premiums.

Trump himself said his first day as in the White House would see him ask Congress to sit in special session to repeal the act.

Samsung's decision to recall the phones instead of pushing a software update that would stop batteries from overheating, the Indiana governor said, is the opposite of the Obama White House's decision to cling to the Affordable Care Act as premium increases give Americans 'unprecedented sticker shock'.

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'If we don't repeal and replace Obamacare, we will destroy American health care forever,' Trump said Tuesday

Pence quoted the president in a Florida speech last month.

'He actually compared Obamacare to the Samsung Galaxy 7 phones that spontaneously burst into flames,' he told the crowd.

Mike Pence (pictured Monday) offered a new attack on Obamacare as he introduced Trump at a rally in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania

'I'm serious!' he went on, as laughter broke out among an invited audience of about 500 people in a hotel ballroom near Philadelphia.

'President Obama said, quote – here's the quote! – "When one of these companies comes out with a new smartphone that has a few bugs, what do they do? They fix it. they upgrade it. Unless it catches fire, then they pull it off the market".'

'Well, what a coincidence, Mr. President! Because that's exactly what we're going to do with Obamacare. We're going to pull it off the market so it stops burning up our wallets.'

Pence's speech was an equal split between policy and politics. He blasted Hillary Clinton for pushing 'actually to introduce what's called single-payer – more government-run health care.'

He said one of Clinton's paid speeches north of the border exposed her desire to implement 'universal health care coverage like you have here in Canada.'

'Well, we don't want the socialized health care they have in Canada. We want American solutions,' Pence said.

'When you order every American to have government-approved health insurance whether they want it or need it, when you create a government-run plan paid for with job-killing tax increases, that is plain and simple a government takeover of health care,' he insisted.

'Before it was called Obamacare, it was called Hillarycare,' he recalled.

'We can't trust Hillary Clinton with our health care any more than we can trust her with classified information.'

Donald Trump, appearing after Pence, said he would ask Congress on his first day in office to convene a special session 'so we can repeal and replace' Obamacare.

'We will do it, and we will do it very quickly, because it is a catastrophe,' he pledged.

'Obamacare is a catastrophic failure,' Pence agreed.

Samsung had to conduct an expensive recall after a number of its Galaxy Note7 phones caught fire

In its place, he said the Trump plan would 'replace Obamacare with health care reform that lowers the cost of health insurance without growing the size of government.'

It would 'get rid of the individual mandate, because government shouldn't tell you how to spend your money and set priorities in your life.'

Americans could purchase policies across state lines in a Trump administration, 'just like you can your car insurance and your life insurance.'

He also touted the introduction of Health Savings Accounts that Americans 'can use to pay first-dollar expenses for their health.'

The presidential election, just seven days away, is a hotly fought contest that could result in a Democratic victory if the Republican rank-and-file that opposed Trump's nomination stays away from the voting booth.

'It's time to come home,' Pence urge them.

Trump said Obamacare represents 'higher prices, fewer choices, and lower quality. Yet Hillary Clinton wants to expand Obamacare and make it even more expensive.'

'She wants to put government totally in charge of health care in this country.'

'If we don't repeal and replace Obamacare, we will destroy American health care forever,' he said ominously.

A group of Republican members of Congress who are physicians, and one nurse, warmed up the crowd.

Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso, an orthopedic surgeon, complained that a Democratic majority in Congress passed the Affordable Care Act without a single Republican vote.

'For people who think government is the answer, this is their solution,' he said.

Georgia Rep. Tom Price had stronger language for Obamacare's rate hikes and contraction of health care services.

'Folks, this is lunacy. This is lunacy. This is what happens when you put the government in charge,' Price said.

Texas Rep. Mike Burgess said Republicans in Congress are 'chomping at the bit' to develop a replacement law 'that will then go down to the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue to be signed by President Trump.

That, he said, 'will end Obamacare for once and for all.'

"No Republicans were consulted, and this thing was rammed through [Congress]," he said of the Affordable Care Act.

Rep. Andy Harris of Maryland said all but one insurer providing Obamacare medical policies in his district have dropped out of the government-managed exchanges.

President Obama lied to the American people, he charged, by saying that "if you like your plan you can keep your plan."

"Well, there's only one in my district right now," Harris said.