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June 6, 2024 Editor, The News-Gazette: The Affordable Care Act is one of the greatest advances in U.S. health care.
The American Medical Association supports the ACA because it “increases health insurance coverage for the uninsured … patients who may have been uninsured due to preexisting conditions or limited finances can secure affordable health plans through the health insurance marketplace ...”
That’s why Americans have signed up in droves.
According to the National Institutes for Health, “the national uninsured rate for all ages declined 1.9% from 2019 to 2022, with early 2023 data showing …. all-time low national uninsured rate of 7.7%.”
The ACA has benefited the most impoverished in our community: “Changes in uninsured rates from 2021 to 2023 were largest among individuals with incomes below 100% of the Federal Poverty Level (FPL) and incomes between 200% and 400% FPL.”
Despite its vital importance to vulnerable Americans, Donald Trump did everything he could to dismantle it while president. By 2017, Trump had promised to repeal Obamacare at least 68 times.
He failed, but the Associated Press reports: “Trump says he will renew efforts to replace ‘Obamacare’ if he wins a second term.”
Trump: “I’m seriously looking at alternatives. We had a couple of Republican Senators who campaigned for 6 years against it, and then raised their hands not to terminate it. It was a low point for the Republican Party, but we should never give up!”
Do you want to go back to being stuck with no or little (but expensive) protection if you have a pre-existing condition?
Do you want your 18-year-old to be pushed off your health insurance?
Do you want those in your community who are not lucky enough to have employer-subsidized health insurance to flounder in debt if they have the bad luck to get sick?
No? Then protect the ACA. Stop Trump. TINNI SEN Lexington
