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Over 1,000,000 Americans Have Lost Health Insurance Under Trump
More than 1 million Americans have lost their health insurance under the Trump administration. They've sabotaged the Affordable Care Act every step of the way.
More than 1 million Americans have lost health coverage since 2016, a new report from the Congressional Budget Office finds. The report... follows other studies, all suggesting that America’s uninsured rate is rising under Trump, whose administration has passed new rules that make it more difficult to enroll in coverage.
The CBO estimates that the number of Americans without insurance has risen from 27.5 million in 2016 to 28.9 million in 2018, an increase of 1.4 million Americans going uninsured.
Much of that increase is concentrated in the Medicaid program, where the Trump administration has approved new rules like work requirements that can make it more difficult for low-income Americans to enroll in the program.
.... meant to serve low-income Americans... More than 18,000 people there have lost coverage since the Trump administration approved that new rule, which requires Medicaid recipients to work at least 80 hours per month...
This is the #1 issue for the next election and every future election until every elected official supports coverage of healthcare for all people. Democrats ran heavily on healthcar ein 2018 and look what happened. Republicans respond with more stupidity, learning nothing from the will of the people.
Gallup found in January that the country’s uninsured rate was at a four-year high.... There is some evidence that all the discussion of Obamacare repeal may be depressing insurance enrollment. A YouGov poll at the end of 2017 found that 31 percent of Americans believed Republicans had successfully repealed the Affordable Care Act. More recent polling from the Kaiser Family Foundation finds that 17 percent of Americans believe the law has been repealed and 14 percent aren’t sure if it’s still standing.
Republicans are getting what they want despite incompetence: less people with healthcare.
Even without repealing Obamacare, it appears that the Trump administration is still having a tangible impact on insurance sign-ups — and fewer Americans are getting the coverage they used to.