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Uncle Joe

(60,130 posts) Sat Oct 12, 2024, 12:40 PM Oct 12

JD Vance's mom got health coverage under Trump -- by using Obamacare

The vice-presidential nominee’s story about family members’ new health coverage illustrates how Republicans inherited — and benefited — from the current system.

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Vance was referring to his mother, who purchased private health insurance through the Affordable Care Act’s insurance marketplace run by Ohio after she overcame substance-abuse challenges, became financially stable and subsequently made too much money to remain on Medicaid, a campaign spokesman told The Washington Post. Vance also was invoking a cousin in Florida who obtained private insurance for the the first time through the state’s marketplace, spokesman William Martin said.

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But to many health policy experts, Vance’s story reveals something else: the benefits of “Obamacare,” even to its critics, and the audacity of Trump’s attempts to take credit for the work of President Barack Obama and Democrats, who crafted and defended the Affordable Care Act at great political cost. After Democrats enacted the law in 2010, Republicans spent the next seven years vowing to overturn it, culminating in a Trump-led repeal effort that fell one vote short.

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Now on the campaign trail, Vance has worked to cast Trump as a defender of the Affordable Care Act, which became politically popular after Republicans’ failed repeal efforts inadvertently catalyzed support for the law. Sixty-two percent of adults held favorable views of the law in April, according to KFF, and nearly 50 million people have used the law to obtain private health insurance since its passage, the White House announced last month.

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“Many more people have coverage through the marketplace today, because of the expanded subsidies that have been made available during the Biden administration,” she added. The Trump campaign has signaled that he would do away with those subsidies.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/10/12/jd-vance-mother-health-insurance-obamacare-aca/

There is a nice graph on the link reflecting how the Affordable Care Act, A.K.A. Obamacare has greatly gained in popularity since its' inception.

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JD Vance's mom got health coverage under Trump -- by using Obamacare (Original Post) Uncle Joe Oct 12 OP

From Ronald Reagan to Ayn Rand to Paul Ryan displacedvermoter Oct 12 #1

Kick dalton99a Oct 12 #2

It's not socialism when the GOP or the 1% elite enjoy a US benefit or a C0RI0LANUS Oct 13 #3

displacedvermoter

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1. From Ronald Reagan to Ayn Rand to Paul Ryan

Reply to Uncle Joe (Original post)

Sat Oct 12, 2024, 12:53 PM

Oct 12

to Lauren Boebert to Mark Robinson these people and their families have taken advantage -- with every right to do so -- of various federal and state assistance programs. And every fucking one of them, once in a position of influence, worked to deny other people the same kind of assistance. And their stupid followers eat it right up.

Self reliance for thee, government help for me, that should be there motto.

dalton99a

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2. Kick

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Sat Oct 12, 2024, 01:34 PM

Oct 12

C0RI0LANUS

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3. It's not socialism when the GOP or the 1% elite enjoy a US benefit or a

Reply to Uncle Joe (Original post)

Sun Oct 13, 2024, 01:23 AM

Oct 13

corporate tax break. It's socialism when the 99% receive SNAP, the ACA, mild tuition assistance, or a rent control apartment.

If I recall correctly, in 2001 "Dubya" inherited a healthy American economy from the Clinton Admin that the GOP frittered away with two long and costly wars.

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