Health-care law more popular despite Trump's repeated attempts to destroy it

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Health-care law more popular despite Trump’s repeated attempts to destroy it


President Trump speaks at an event at the White House on April 12, 2019. He continues to push for the elimination of the Affordable Care Act. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images)

By Paige Winfield Cunningham at the Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/health-care-law-more-popular-despite-trumps-repeated-attempts-to-destroy-it/2019/04/13/dca9d6fc-571d-11e9-9136-f8e636f1f6df_story.html?utm_term=.c19633d4ced7

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Even in states that have tried to reject the ACA wherever possible, the law has had a marked impact. Florida, Texas, North Carolina and Georgia — which are among the 14 states that still refuse to expand Medicaid — have the most marketplace enrollees, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.

While most legal scholars think it is unlikely the Supreme Court will strike down the ACA should it ultimately hear the case, the lawsuit and the Trump administration’s response frustrates many state leaders who have watched their uninsured rates decline as the ACA has become enmeshed in their systems.

Two Republican state attorneys general — Dave Yost in Ohio and Tim Fox in Montana — recently filed a legal brief outlining the consequences for their states should the courts strike down the ACA.

“The court’s decision, if affirmed, will deprive millions of non-elderly Ohioans and Montanans of coverage for preexisting conditions,” the pair wrote. “It will also negatively affect countless others who organized their affairs in reliance on the Act’s many unrelated provisions.”


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