Trump's renewed effort to dismantle Obamacare is particularly cruel during the pandemic
- The Trump administration recently argued before the Supreme Court in favor of repealing the entirely of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.
- This would remove an estimated 20 million people off their health coverage, which is an especially dangerous move considering that the country is in the midst of a pandemic and millions of people are losing their jobs.
- Aviva Aron-Dine is the Vice President for Health Policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
- This is an opinion column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author.
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Late in the evening of June 25, the Trump administration filed a brief with the Supreme Court, arguing that "the entire Affordable Care Act must fall." A few days later, the President himself urged the court to overturn the decade-old healthcare law, a move which would terminate health coverage for millions.
Trump claimed his administration would replace the ACA, colloquially known as Obamacare, with a "better" alternative and insisted that he will "almost protect" people with pre-existing conditions.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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