Health Insurance For Millions Is Now Officially At Stake — Again
Everyone knew what Donald Trump and the Republicans had in mind for health care when they were about to take power eight years ago, because they had announced their intentions repeatedly — and loudly.
Trump had spent the 2016 campaign vowing to repeal the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare. Republicans in Congress had voted repeatedly to do the same. Days after the election, they stood shoulder-to-shoulder in Washington and pledged to make repealing the law a top priority. And they proceeded to try to do just that, pushing a bill to kill the Affordable Care Act through the House only to come up one vote short in the Senate.
Jonathan Cohn November 20, 2024
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