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Another Trump campaign promise not fulfilled.

"The Trump administration on Monday said the entire Affordable Care Act should be struck down, in a dramatic reversal."

So to fulfill his promise of affordable healthcare & pharmaceuticals for all Americans Trump announces today that he wants to strike down the Affordable Care Act and he will not be replacing it with another program to provide Affordable Care in pharmaceuticals for Americans.

Trump administration now says entire Affordable Care Act should be struck down

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Trump administration now says entire Affordable Care Act should be struck down

The Trump administration on Monday said the entire Affordable Care Act should be struck down, in a dramatic reversal.

In a filing with a federal appeals court, the Justice Department said it agreed with the ruling of a federal judge in Texas that invalidated the Obama-era health care law.
In a letter Monday night, the administration said "it is not urging that any portion of the district court's judgment be reversed."
"The Department of Justice has determined that the district court's comprehensive opinion came to the correct conclusion and will support it on appeal," said Kerri Kupec, spokesperson for the Justice Department.

It's a major shift for the Justice Department from when Jeff Sessions was attorney general. At the time, the administration argued that the community rating rule and the guaranteed issue requirement -- protections for people with pre-existing conditions -- could not be defended but the rest of the law could stand.
After the Justice Department took that position, federal District Judge Reed O'Connor struck down the entire law and the case is currently before a federal appeals court.

Trump and the administration repeatedly promised -- particularly leading up to the midterm election -- to protect people with less-than-perfect medical histories.
But this shift in the Justice Department's stance doubles down on stripping away all the protections that were a hallmark of the landmark heath reform law.

The administration's move didn't only startle supporters of the law. One former official who worked under Sessions told CNN Monday night that he, too, was surprised by the new position.

Because the case is before one of the most conservative appellate courts in the country, it almost guarantees that the issue will return to the newly solidified conservative Supreme Court at some point. President Barack Obama's former solicitor general, Donald Verrilli -- who once defended the law before the Supreme Court -- is now defending the law on behalf of the Democratic-led House.

Overturning the law would have far-reaching consequences -- way beyond disrupting coverage for the millions of people who get their health insurance on the exchanges or through Medicaid expansion.

Obamacare saves senior citizens money on their Medicare coverage and prescription drugs. It lets many Americans obtain free birth control, mammograms and cholesterol tests. And it allows children to stay on their parents' health insurance plans until they turn 26.
And, even the Trump administration is using the landmark health reform law to try to lower prescription drug prices.

The Trump administration would not defend the law in court so a coalition of 21 Democratic states led by California stepped in.
"This lawsuit is as dangerous as it is reckless. It threatens the healthcare of tens of millions of Americans across the country -- from California to Kentucky and all the way to Maine," said California Attorney General Xavier Becerra in a statement. "The Affordable Care Act is an integral part of our healthcare system. ... Because no American should fear losing healthcare, we will defend the ACA every step of the way."

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After November's midterm elections, the Democratic-led House of Representatives also joined in. In briefs filed with the appellate court, House lawyers said that if O'Connor's ruling were upheld "the consequences will be devastating."

"Millions of Americans will be denied affordable health care," the House lawyers wrote. They added that "insurance costs will skyrocket" and "Medicare recipients will face steep increases in the price of drugs and other services."

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the administration's stance amounted to "all-out war on the health care of the American people."

"On the very first day that the Democratic Majority held the gavel, the House of Representatives voted to intervene against Republicans' monstrous health care lawsuit to defend people with pre-existing conditions and the health care of all Americans," Pelosi said in a statement. "While the Trump Administration broadens its monstrous ambitions from destroying protections for pre-existing conditions to tearing down every last benefit and protection the Affordable Care Act provides, Democrats are fiercely defending the law of the land and protecting all Americans' health care."

Sen. Kamala Harris, a California Democrat, became the first 2020 candidate to weigh in on the filing with her criticism Monday night. During Attorney General William Barr's confirmation hearing in January, Harris asked him whether he was open to reconsidering the department's position. He replied: "Yes."

"Trump and his administration are trying to take health care away from tens of millions of Americans — again," Harris wrote in a tweet. "We must fight back again with everything we've got. And in 2020, we need to elect a president who will make health care a right."

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RedFred

They want to deny health care to 35 million people, they have no problem letting these people die. A slower and more subtle version of the holocaust.

Hawkeye

Good.

ObamaCare has been a disaster.

Especially for the low-income people it was meant to help.

Bladewire

A large portion of Trumps constituents are Affordable Care Act customers.

When conservatards tried to do this in 2017 their base revolted when they realized Obamacare was actually the Affordable Care Act and they demanded to keep their healthcare.

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RedFred

Only a sociopathic Trump cultist would call 35 million people including millions of children getting health care a disaster.

Acepimp

35 million!!! LOL!!!!! First it was like 10, then 20, now it's 35 million! HAHAHAHAHA!!!!

The ACA was unconstitutional and just really bad. What don't you people understand??

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Bladewire

He's Russian, that's what Putin's cretins want in the St. Petersburg IRA troll farm .

RedFred

How many people does your Russian handlers tell you it is?

escorpio

Another bad day for the Blaidwires.

Hawkeye

Millions of people, some of whom I know personally, LOST their healthcare thanks to Obama.

ObamaCare made healthcare much more expensive, and people found that the only way they could survive was to cancel their health insurance and pay the fine instead.

With ObamaCare out of the way, those "35 million" people still have access to healthcare, except it's much more affordable now.

Acepimp

It's about 2.5 million, and I'm east coast, dummy.

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Acepimp

^^ EXACTLY- So Obamacare added 2.5 million people, but there were way more than that who LOST their coverage. It was all a giant sham. Foolish "progressives" got duped again!!!

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Bladewire

Another Trump lie.

Another broken promise by Trump.

2 years ago Trump promised repeal and replace.

Now Trump wants to take away Affordable health Care with no replacement for the 35 million people who currently enrolled under the Affordable Care Act.

Bladewire

The Russian alt-right hate fake nic troll just throws out lies with no shame.

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Bladewire

America is the only Western country without Affordable health Care in pharmaceuticals. #ThanksTrump

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RedFred

Who fucking cares what part of Russia you're in.

2.5 million my ass. This report from 2016 puts it at 20 million. Stop your fucking lying.

Who Gained Health Insurance Coverage Under the ACA, and Where Do They Live?

RedFred

They're Trump wannabes. They think the more they lie the more they can be like him.

Bladewire

Trump's government reports millions more.

They're literally disagreeing with Trump

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Mr Pheer

You clowns getting all upset without waiting to hear what the replacement is.

He's said several times he would have something for people with pre-existing conditions. just wait.

Or don't wait and run around bitching some more, like you guys always do.

Hey did you hear that his veto stands so we're getting our wall? Did you hear about the green new deal getting zero votes??

Haha it's a great day watching you guys. It's like an ant farm.

pimpmaster9000

"leaders of the free world" can not even organize non-criminal healthcare in their own fucking country

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candyflip

The only shit eater here is the OP.

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adultinnovation

Obamacare was just a way for Obama to stroke his ego

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beerptrol

It's been 2 years and republitards still have no health care plan to replace Obamacare. Tax cuts for the rich is more important .

Republitards plan is don't get sick

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astronaut x

Obamacare sucks for everyone overall. The only thing good about it, is that it was able to cover a lot of people for pre-existing conditions.

It's too bad that Dems are forced to feed that to their base. The reality is it has also created for more people to get sick. It has made quality insurance even further out of reach for many.

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kane

Republicans have no interest in healthcare. If they wouldn't get killed politically for it they would just repeal Obamacare and not replace it with anything.

People like me get to go back to not having insurance, paying cash, and just hoping they don't get really sick.

Bladewire

It's unfortunate they're such lost losers following their leader to their demise.

Trump is a lame duck the next 2 years and nobody can change that. Being neutered like this pisses Trump off so he's going to do a bunch of yelling and screaming to make himself feel relevant still.

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Rochard

Just do it.

Seriously. Republicans have been talking about this now for years. Okay, well, do it. Take away everyone's medical benefits without a replacement. Let's see how that works.

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Bladewire

They would be stupid enough to try it again and fail again

TheSquealer

Dems do nothing voters care about,... just complain, resist, obstruct, derail and have NO PLAN at all for ANYTHING... and will again be baffled when they get smoked in 2020.

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imabro

You seriously think he has something in mind? Dealing with the VA, what are your hopes?

imabro

Eliminating ACA isn't going to hurt more people than implementing it did.

Bladewire

↑↑↑ Knows what the shit deep in in Trump's asshole tastes like.

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Diomed

So many people lost coverage after obamacare

My premiums doubled in the first 2 years.

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crockett

Your a lying pice of shit.. Healthcare coverage expanded under Obamacare.

Why do you constantly lie?

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crockett

They will blame Democrats and their stupid cult followers will believe them. These people are the stupidest fucking idiots I've ever seen in my lifetime.

Republicans managed to round up all the dumbfucks in this country and got them to vote..

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GFED

Premiums tripled, and deductables went up tenfold.

Only a piece of shit communist would support oboomercare.

RedFred

You're full of shit. You can't get a job driving a truck yet you expect anyone to believe you could afford even $50 a month for health insurance?


The chart below shows you Trump idiots are flat out liars. From 1999 - 2009 (pre-Obamacare) rates almost tripled, and from 2009 - 2019 (Obamacare) rates didn't even double. Trumpers will lie to get people to lose their health coverage, that's what pieces of shit they are.

crockett

Don't even try to bull shit us.. We all know you never had healthcare insurance in the 1st place.. The most ironic thing is Obamacare would have helped someone like you..


In fact I bet not a single one of you red hats had healthcare insurance prior to Obamacare. Why do all you you lunatics lie all the time?

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Bladewire

Why don't Trump supporters want Americans to be healthy?

Bladewire

Most of these people are in red states, that's how stupid Trump supporters are.

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RedFred

One-Third Don’t Know Obamacare and Affordable Care Act Are the Same

crockett

Because they hate everyone and everything but what their cult leader tells them to like.

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pimpmaster9000

I also like the "shit eating repukes" part...thats nice and classy...

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Bladewire

Thanks bro balls out

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Bladewire

When Trump dies how many of them do you think will commit suicide?

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RedFred

None. They'll spend day and night posting on the internet that Hillary and the deep state had him killed.