The Republican Party’s efforts to rip health care away from millions of families spelled doom for the GOP in the 2018 midterm. Yet somehow, Trump thinks it’s a good idea to try one more time — even as yet another poll indicates that Americans don’t want him to.
On Tuesday afternoon, less than 24 hours after his lawyers announced they wanted to completely eliminate the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Trump bragged that Republicans “will become ‘The Party of Health care!’”
But in a Monday court filing, Trump’s Department of Justice announced that it advocates striking down the entire ACA. If this happens and Trump gets his wish, 30 million people stand to lose access to health care. Millions more would lose protections for pre-existing conditions, one of the ACA’s most popular mandates. And 1.2 million people could lose their jobs.
View the complete March 26 article by Dan Desai Martin on the National Memo website here.