President Trump said Thursday that Obamacare is being repealed “piecemeal” and that the healthcare law is “going to be gone pretty soon.”

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

“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.”

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.

Obamacare allies and Democrats have said association health plans and the expansion of the duration of short-term plans could destabilize Obamacare’s exchanges. 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.

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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.

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.

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