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An early peek at the Trump administration’s plans to replace the Affordable Care Act shows the president’s team is proposing incentives to health insurers to stay put in the marketplaces, giving time for Republicans hammer out a new healthcare plan.

Those inducements, according to two draft documents obtained by POLITICO, include limiting who can sign up for health insurance outside the annual enrollment period, shifting more costs onto consumers and hiking insurance costs for older Americans.

The changes are among those the industry had sought from the Obama administration.

As Anthem CEO Joseph Swedish said during an investor call last week, “We still need certainty about short-term fixes in order to determine the extent of our participation in the individual market in 2018,’’ the POLITICO story noted.

But the administration apparently is not seeking major changes to the individual mandate, the heart of Obamacare that, if upended, insurers worry could quickly destabilize the marketplace, the story said.

Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress have said they intend to immediately dismantle the law, but recent private discussions among Republicans have revealed their apprehension over making changes too quickly that could “pull the rug out from under’’ millions of Americans who now rely on the law for health insurance.

And in an interview aired Sunday, Trump acknowledged to Fox News host Bill O’Reilly that it may take until the end of this year or 2018 to replace the 2010 health care law.

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