- There’s good news about improvements in our health care system, thanks to the Affordable Care Act (click on the links for source info):
o We’re diagnosing cancer earlier, meaning more lives will be saved.
o Low-income patients have increased access to better and more affordable health insurance.
o Medicaid expansion states have seen plummeting rates of uninsured residents as far more people gain access to insurance.
- But despite this good news – and despite the evident harm repealing it would cause – the Trump Administration and Congressional Republicans continue to attack the Affordable Care Act:
o According to LA Times reporting, the Trump Administration is intentionally undermining the ACA, which has resulted in rate hikes.
o The GOP’s Trumpcare bill could drive up premiums for 6 million Americans with pre-existing conditions.
o The White House and the GOP efforts to sabotage the ACA are destabilizing insurance markets, causing the cost of insurance to increase.
o Trumpcare would result in cuts to Medicaid funding for children.
And, here’s the status of what Republicans are trying to do, according to Congressman Tom O’Halleran: