GOP nominee Donald Trump blasted the failure of Obamacare Tuesday after the administration was forced to admit premiums will rise by 22 percent in 2017 and consumers will face fewer plan options.

“Obamacare is just blowing up,” Trump said Tuesday during a press conference outside the Trump National Doral Miami resort. “Obamacare has to be repealed and replaced — otherwise this country is in bigger trouble than anybody thought.”

“Obamacare is just blowing up … Obamacare has to be repealed and replaced — otherwise this country is in bigger trouble than anybody thought.”

The Department of Health and Human Services released the disastrous figures Monday, which showed across-the-board hikes in premiums and a 36-percent reduction in available plans.

Trump said the multiplying woes facing the health care law mean real consequences for the average American citizen.

“All of my employees are having a tremendous problem with Obamacare,” Trump said. “What they’re going through with [their] health care is horrible because of Obamacare … These are just amazing people, and this is what jobs do … Jobs just make lives and they make people and they make families.”

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“Even the White House, our president, announced 25 or 26 percent [increases to premiums],” Trump said. “That number is so wrong. That is such a phony number … You’re talking about 60, 70, 80 percent in increases — not 25 percent.”

Trump added, “And I think what [Obama] wanted to do, because it was blowing up all over the country — The numbers came out in Texas where it’s 60-percent increases, and other places, other states. One state’s going to be 92-percent increases. You put out a 25-percent, 26-percent increase and that’s supposed to keep it down.”

Dr. Robert E. Moffit, senior fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation, says the premium hikes are just part of the story.

“Exchange enrollees also facing bigger deductibles and out-of pocket payments and fewer choices, as more plans drop out and competition declines, Moffit told LifeZette in an emailed response to questions, “Cost control for middle class Americans was a key selling point during the Obamacare. But clearly, the President’s oft-repeated promise that the “typical” American family would see a $2,500 decrease in their annual costs was empty.”

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Aside from the escalating impact on individuals still enrolled under the massive healthcare law, structural parts of the Affordable Care Act have begun to crumble. Of the 23 nonprofit co-ops set up under Obamacare to subsidize health care coverage, at least 16 have folded nationwide and left thousands who signed up for health care without coverage. In addition, many major insurers have announced they will be pulling out of state health care marketplaces.

The increasingly visible impact of the Obamacare collapse on ordinary Americans bodes poorly for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, who has vocally endorsed the massive government expansion into health care on several occasions.

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“We have a disagreement in the campaign over health care,” Clinton said at a campaign rally during her primary battle against Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. “Now look, it was called Hillarycare before it was called Obamacare. Right?”

“I worked hard back in 1993 and ’94 to get us to universal health care and I was thrilled. And thanks to President Obama’s leadership and a Democratic Congress, we passed the Affordable Care Act,” Clinton continued.

More recently, at the third presidential debate against Trump, Clinton tried to duck addressing the failures of the health care law.

“And I’ll say something about the Affordable Care Act, which [Trump] wants to repeal. The Affordable Care Act extended the solvency of the Medicare Trust Fund. So if he repeals it, our Medicare problem gets worse,” Clinton said.