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Donald Trump did not spare the emphasis, Thursday, September 24, by unveiling his ” vision Of the health coverage he has promised Americans since he joined the White House more than three and a half years ago. Forty days before the election, he presented, as a “Historic action”, “The very first executive order affirming that the official policy of the United States government is to protect patients with pre-existing diseases” that insurance companies agree to cover at exorbitant prices. He ignored the fact that the medical history is already covered by the health reform bequeathed by his Democratic predecessor, Barack Obama.
This announcement effect targets an area in which his Democratic presidential opponent, Joe Biden, is deemed more trustworthy than him (53% vs. 41% in the latest Fox News poll published on September 13). In the midterm elections, Americans’ health concerns favored Democratic candidates, allowing them to regain a majority in the House of Representatives. Donald Trump has promised many times since a reform that would lead to cheaper and more effective health insurance, without ever revealing the slightest detail. The ” vision »Presented Thursday does not allow to know more.
The subject is trapped among Republicans, to the point that the reference to Obamacare was almost absent at the Republican nomination convention at the end of August, when it was previously a rallying cry. The Republican Party, then Donald Trump as soon as he entered politics, promised to “Delete and replace” this reform without ever succeeding, even suffering a bitter failure in Congress, in 2017, while the Republicans were in the majority in both chambers.
The Grand Old Party, however, has not given up on the temptation to achieve its ends in court. While some Republican states have used a provision of Obamacare to expand health insurance for the poorest, Medicaid, others have led the battle, backed by the Trump administration, hoping that a Supreme Court will still more anchored to the right will end up invalidating a law which is however largely supported by public opinion. This relentlessness, in the midst of the Covid-19 epidemic, risks coming back to the fore when the judge promised by Donald Trump to replace the progressive icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died on September 19, is confirmed.
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