A new U.S. Census Bureau report featured in the Washington Post today reveals that one million Americans lost health insurance in 2019 — and that number has increased by millions during the pandemic. The Health 202 points to “repeated attempts by President Trump and Republicans to undermine” the Affordable Care Act as a key driver of the rise in uninsured Americans as “the new data signifies that the first three years of President Trump’s tenure were a period of contracting health insurance coverage.”
Despite the millions of Americans out of work and uninsured through no fault of their own, Senate Republicans are still enabling the toxic GOP lawsuit to strike down the entire health care law, which would eliminate protections for people with pre-existing conditions and kick an estimated 20 million Americans off their health insurance. Senate Republicans still have “no plan” if the increasingly popular health care law is struck down, but are desperately trying to rewrite their toxic records in false and misleading campaign ads as health care remains a massive “political liability” for the GOP that “could help determine control of the Senate.”
Washington Post: Analysis | The Health 202: One million Americans lost health insurance last year
By Paige Winfield Cunningham
September 16, 2020
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