Two Million Americans Lost Health Coverage/Access in Trump's First Year

[douglas9]

A new School of Public Health study finds that two million more Americans avoided health care because of inability to pay, and/or did not have health insurance, at the end of 2017 compared to the end of 2016.

Published in the February issue of Health Affairs, the study examines the period from 2011 to 2017, showing positive trends in healthcare coverage and access following implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA, also known as Obamacare), and a reversal of those trends when newly-elected President Trump and Congressional Republicans began working to dismantle the ACA.

“We hear a lot about the ACA being ‘undermined.’ While we found the ACA isn’t unravelling, there are real consequences to some of the policies that have been put in place,” says Kevin Griffith, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Health Law, Policy & Management and the study’s lead author.

“We see that you have these policy changes that are affecting millions of peoples’ ability to get insurance, and millions of people forgoing care because they can’t afford it.”

https://www.bu.edu/sph/2020/02/03/two-million-americans-lost-health-coverage-access-in-trumps-first-year/

[Rider3]

1. And...

it will get worse.

[KPN]

2. It has gotten worse. There are more than that now I'm quite sure, especially amonmg young who no

longer are required by the ACA to purchase insurance. On top of that, many who do have insurance might as well not at all when it comes down to the deductibles, co-pays and max OOPs that come with low premiums. Sure those individuals may get a return on those premiums if they have a catastrophic health issue, but will they be able to survive financially if their ability to maintain their income is affected? For some, definitely not, while for many maybe not.

You know I won't be surprised if, next, tRump and the GOP mobsters go after health costs as a legitimate/eligible reason for bankruptcy.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. Any numbers for the two years since?