JD Vance's mom got health coverage under Trump -- by using Obamacare [View all]

[Uncle Joe]

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.