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The Republican governor signed a bill curbing Obamacare's Medicaid expansion, months after voters approved the program.
Democratic candidates have exposed the outlandish lies by Trump and numerous Republicans pretending to defend the sick. But the inconvenient truth is that even with the ACA insurance companies have found numerous ways to skirt the law.
Donald Trump sued by 18 states for ending key Obamacare payments with executive order.
Move to end subsidies for lower-income customers 'breathtakingly reckless', says New York's attorney general
On the key point of who “owns” health care, 60 percent of respondents in the Kaiser poll said it was Trump and Republicans and 28 percent said it was Obama and Democrats.
Because Republicans have been so successful in keeping many of their residents from getting insurance, they think the country should trust them to overhaul heath care.
It’s no secret that the American Health Care Act is unpopular. In recent national polls, only about 29 percent of Americans support the bill. It is the most unpopular piece of major legislation Congress has considered in decades — even more unloved than TARP (“the bailout”), and much more unpopular than the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.
Despite opposition from almost every major health organization, the GOP pushes an Affordable Care Act replacement bill through the House of Representatives.
Activism matters. And political morale changes quickly.
Senator Bernie Sanders reacts to the death of Trumpcare.
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