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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAmericans are starting to suffer from Trump's health-care sabotage WP Editorial Board
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/americans-are-starting-to-suffer-from-trumps-health-care-sabotage/2018/05/06/c60fb6fa-4fb2-11e8-b725-92c89fe3ca4c_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.5e718677c78d"SNIP.........
IT IS a tribute to the resilience of the United States public and private institutions that, despite President Trumps incoherent management, the country has, by many measures, continued to improve, notching its lowest unemployment rate since 2000 in the latest federal employment update. But the effects of the presidents underinformed instincts, enabled by the ideologues in his administration, are beginning to show up in some of the numbers, representing real pain that Americans are suffering for Mr. Trumps deficient leadership.
The Commonwealth Fund, a nonprofit foundation focused on health-care issues, announced last week that the rate of working-age Americans without health insurance in the groups annual survey rose to 15.5 percent, up about three percentage points since 2016. Things are worse in the 19 holdout states, such as Virginia, that have refused to expand their Medicaid programs: The rate of uninsured working-age Americans hit 21.9 percent in those areas, up nearly six percentage points over two years. Nationally, the spike has been particularly bad at the modest end of the income scale, rising nearly five percentage points since 2016 for low-income, working-age Americans.
Obamacare critics regularly describe all problems as the inevitable result of a poorly designed law. But the numbers suggest that the critics sabotage efforts are to blame. After impressive declines during President Barack Obamas second term, the fund found that the uninsured rate increased in both of the years Mr.?Trump has been in office. During the campaign, Mr. Trump regularly complained that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) left too many Americans uncovered. The result of nearly a year and a half of Mr. Trumps leadership is 4 million people added to that group.
Obamacare was never perfect. But Commonwealth Fund analysts noted that, rather than fixing the laws problems, Republicans have done concrete things to worsen them. These include the administrations deep cuts in advertising and outreach during the marketplace open-enrollment periods, a shorter open enrollment period, and other actions that collectively may have left people with a general sense of confusion about the status of the law, they wrote. Signs point to further erosion of insurance coverage in 2019: the repeal of the individual mandate penalty included in the 2017 tax law, recent actions to increase the availability of insurance policies that dont comply with ACA minimum benefit standards, and support for Medicaid work requirements.
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Americans are starting to suffer from Trump's health-care sabotage WP Editorial Board (Original Post)
applegrove
May 2018
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DBoon
(22,354 posts)1. suffering pleases republicans' cold shriveled hearts
Their miserable lives are complete when someone they think of as lesser suffers pain, sickness and unnecessary death