3 Million Americans Lost Health Insurance in Trump’s 1st Year
BAILEY T. STEEN | FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 2018
If you like your doctor, don’t look to the president if you want to keep your doctor. According to new Gallup data released last Tuesday, the stock market isn’t the only area hitting record numbers during the Trump administration: over 3.2 million American citizens have been left without any form of health insurance, the largest single-year decrease in coverage since the 2010 implementation of The Affordable Care Act (often nicknamed “Obamacare”).
Undoubtedly healthcare will be a defining issue plaguing the president and his party come 2018 and 2020. Pew Research studies heading into the 2016 general election found healthcare to be America’s 4th most vital issue, with around 74% citing this as a “very important” factor in securing their vote.
This leaves the critical eye of the masses on Republican politics regarding Obamacare, the policy they happen to be gutting under voter’s noses. It was the president and company who failed on delivering a “repeal and replace”, unable to secure the votes of both the staunchly libertarian freedom caucus and the more statist, pro-medicaid expansion RINO Republicans.
Such a defeat in Congress left the right-wing’s undermining efforts as a job for other bills…
