Jindal tells candidates: Let’s see your ObamaCare replacement plans

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal on Thursday said he is “surprised” that he is the only 2016 Republican hopeful who has detailed his plans for replacing ObamaCare.

“I will tell anyone thinking about running for president, you need to have your own detailed plan about how to replace ObamaCare,” Jindal said at a D.C. panel hosted by The Washington Examiner.

“To my knowledge, I’m the only candidate — or potential candidate — that’s actually offered a detailed plan,” he said.

Jindal delivered remarks shortly after publishing an op-ed, in which he challenged several 2016 frontrunners for lacking details about how they would replace the law.

“Let’s see his plan,” Jindal said about former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who discussed repealing the Affordable Care Act at a campaign event in Iowa earlier this month.

The Louisiana Republican also highlighted a recent op-ed from Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) about “the post-ObamaCare era,” which offers some clues about his replacement plan.

“Now let’s see the details of his plan, and let’s discuss the merits of our respective proposals,” Jindal wrote in his own op-ed Thursday.

As the next presidential campaign kicks off, the president’s healthcare law has largely remained out of the spotlight. Replacing ObamaCare will be a major question for each Republican candidate, however, particularly after a Supreme Court ruling on subsidies is decided this summer.

Jindal, a former healthcare adviser under the Bush administration, has repeatedly accused Republicans in Congress of being too soft on ObamaCare. He has urged the GOP to keep pushing for full repeal as it crafts its response to the Supreme Court case, King v. Burwell.

He has already criticized several of the Republican plans for the court’s ruling, which he said would “save” the law by continuing the subsidies.

Jindal also reiterated on Thursday that he would not create his own exchange if the Supreme Court ruled against healthcare subsidies, which could put millions in his state at risk of losing their coverage.

“We would not set up an exchange,” he said.