Millions Will Lose Healthcare If Trump Wins - 21Mill Newly Enrolled in ACA for 2024: P. Krugman

[appalachiablue]

- Alternet, Jan. 26, 2024. Ed.

The United States remains the only major developed country that lacks universal healthcare. But thanks to the Affordable Care Act of 2010, a.k.a. Obamacare, the number of Americans without health insurance is much lower than what it was 15 or 20 years ago. On Wed., Oct. 24, the Biden Administration announced that more than 21 million Americans signed up for health plans for 2024 via the ACA's insurance marketplaces.

Obamacare is enjoying record enrollment at a time when 2024 GOP presidential frontrunner Trump is once again threatening to abolish it. In an official statement, President Joe Biden, declared, "The American people have made it clear: they don't want the Affordable Care Act weakened and repealed — they want it strengthened and protected."

Liberal economist Paul Krugman, in his Jan. 25 column for the New York Times, argues that Biden "deserves some political reward" for increasing Obamacare enrollment and warns that Trump will try to kill the increasingly popular program if he wins the 2024 presidential election. Although the ACA, Krugman writes, still has some room for improvement, it has "led to big gains in health insurance coverage."

"Trump tried but failed to repeal Obamacare in 2017, and the backlash to that effort helped Democrats win control of the House the next year," Krugman explains. "Trump was nonetheless able to create some erosion in the program — for example, by cutting off funds for 'navigators' that help people enroll." The economist continues, "That erosion has now been decisively reversed.…
https://www.alternet.org/economist-paul-krugman-millions-of-americans-will-lose-health-care-if-trump-wins/

[dutch777]

1. This why we should focus as much on retaking the House and holding the Senate as well as the WH

I really don't want to ever see the Orange Blob bloviating from a WH podium again. But if I have to, I want to know he will get less evil done if Dems hold Congress.

[appalachiablue]

2. I get it, very high stakes

[VMA131Marine]

3. The real reason Trump wants to repeal Obamacare

is still the White House Correspondent’s Dinner where President Obama made jokes about Trump.
Trump has absolutely no sense of humour; I actually think he has negative sense of humour because he sucks the joy out of everything.

[appalachiablue]

4. IK, the pettiness and spitefulness is deep

[keithbvadu2]

5. No worries! Donald will sign a cheaper, better healthcare plan... in two weeks.

OK!

[appalachiablue]

6. Got it, easy peasy! S/