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In 2017, Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress tried to eviscerate the A.C.A. and almost succeeded in passing a bill that the Congressional Budget Office estimated would have left 22 million more Americans uninsured by 2026. There’s every reason to believe that if the G.O.P. wins control of Congress and the White House in November, it will once again try to bring back the bad old days of health coverage. And it will probably succeed, since it failed in 2017 only thanks to a principled stand by John McCain — something unlikely to happen in today’s Republican Party, where slavish obedience to Trump has become almost universal.
If you want to preserve that access to health insurance, it’s worth checking your voter registration, getting involved as a volunteer for the Democrats and doing what you can afford to provide financial support
There are better replacements, but they tend to look like a fully government-run system, ending the profits of private insurers and major hospital operators. Those are ideologically unacceptable to the Republicans.
I agree. I can afford even today’s ludicrous health care costs, but I know I’m an exception. So many of us can’t. For that reason I’m a proponent of “single payer” universal healthcare that all of use can afford which is indeed better than today’s ACA. However, I am well aware that is even farther away from what Republicans would want. Hence my statement that Republicans can’t even produce a draft of what they deem to be better, not that I’d agree with their definition of better.