Former President Donald Trump’s renewed focus on repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, known colloquially as Obamacare, has alarmed some Republicans scarred by the GOP’s failure to deliver on promises to dismantle the law and who view the issue as a political loser with the American people.
Many on Trump’s team said they were surprised by the former president’s recent declaration on his social media website Truth Social that replacing Obamacare would be a priority of his administration, as Obamacare had not been a focal issue in ongoing policy conversations and the campaign has not yet drafted any kind of health care policy alternative. One Trump adviser told CNN the post came “completely came out of nowhere,” and said the team “has not been talking to him about health care.”
Some Trump advisers who spoke with CNN also conceded that calling for the termination of a health care law that provides millions of Americans coverage and is largely viewed favorably by the public is a political loser going into 2024. Republicans have tried and failed for years to implement substantial changes to Obamacare and the party has largely abandoned efforts to campaign on the issue.
It’s easy to forget that as bad as America’s health care system is compared to other developed nations, it was way, way worse before Obamacare. Some people just couldn’t get insurance back then. And not just people with rare diseases. Pregnant women were denied coverage all the time.
And affordable insurance used to have lifetime caps. I remember a young couple in my hometown having to purposely become impoverished enough for Medicaid because their daughter got leukemia and they hit the cap in no time. People with sick kids were literally giving up promising careers and home ownership to bartend and rent as a way to avoid medical debts.
The GOP is afraid of a policy, that lost, being championed by their biggest attraction, who lost, who keeps making promises that will make him lose.
If ever someone asked you to explain what a loser is, the right is a really good example.
Sore losers at that
Oh, I bet by now he definitively has a better alternative bill, not.
Just you wait 2 weeks for him to release it. Its going to be the bestest most amazing healthcare bill by far. Some might even say it will be yuge.
Right after infrastructure week.
You spelled “insurrection” wrong.
100% it’s just the name that he hates. He is such a petty loser.
But it was republicans that named it that.
“Not like that! We meant it in a bad way!”
Let’s make a deal then: we can go back to calling it by the original name, RomneyCare, but we also have to include the original provision for a public option.
Just so you know they haven’t given up on making your life worse.
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Former President Donald Trump’s renewed focus on repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, known colloquially as Obamacare, has alarmed some Republicans scarred by the GOP’s failure to deliver on promises to dismantle the law and who view the issue as a political loser with the American people.
Some Trump advisers who spoke with CNN also conceded that calling for the termination of a health care law that provides millions of Americans coverage and is largely viewed favorably by the public is a political loser going into 2024.
The ad – which features a pediatric nurse who calls Trump’s health care policies “troubling” – will run in media markets in seven states that will be key to Biden’s 2024 electoral map.
If the election is about those two issues in 2024, then Democrats will have a great night in November,” Ken Spain, a GOP consultant and former communications director for the National Republican Congressional Committee, told CNN.
Advisers to Trump said the catalyst for the former president’s posts was a recent article written by the Wall Street Journal editorial board that raised concerns that patients are seeing higher costs because insurers are using work arounds to an Affordable Care Act rule.
Like many of the policy proposals Trump’s current team is drafting for a potential second term, there are also serious concerns about how the former president could successfully enact them if reelected, acknowledging the necessary obstacles Congress and the courts could pose to a new health care agenda.
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