Republican presidential candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis advised his party on Sunday to come up with a health care alternative to Obamacare, adding that he will roll out his own proposal in the spring.

His remarks come after the Republican frontrunner, former President Donald Trump, waded into territory many GOP lawmakers on Capitol Hill thought was in their rear view mirror: repealing and replacing the Obama-era health law.

“What I think they’re going to need to do is have a plan that will supersede Obamacare, that will lower prices for people so that they can afford healthcare while also making sure that people will preexisting conditions are protected,” Mr. DeSantis said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “I don’t think that repeating what Trump did and the failure is necessarily going to make sense.”

The White House hopeful was short on details but said there will be more to come next year.

“Probably in the spring we’ll roll out a big proposal,” Mr. DeSantis said. “We will definitely be addressing insurance, we’ll definitely be addressing big government, and we will be addressing Big Pharma.”

• Ramsey Touchberry can be reached at rtouchberry@washingtontimes.com.