Affordable Care Act
Trump's position paper on health care reform and the ACA
Timeline
| 2017.02.16 | A Michigan-based health care analyst creates chart that breaks down the number of people who could potentially lose insurance after a full repeal of Obamacare by congressional district, so people can get a sense of the impact in their own community. time.com |
| 2017.02.22 | A new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll shows 45 percent of registered voters approve of Obamacare and 45 percent disapprove as compared to 52 percent disapproval before Trump took office. politico.com (See also First 100 Days) |
| 2017.02.23 | At rowdy town halls, Republicans contradict their past statements on Obamacare and distance themselves from Trump’s agenda. washingtonpost.com (See also First 100 Days) |
| 2017.02.23 | The votes needed to repeal the Affordable Care Act without a robust replacement are now just as hard to reach in the House as the Senate. nytimes.com (See also First 100 Days) |
| 2017.02.23 | Vice President Mike Pence defends Republican efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act and tells CPAC attendees that "America’s Obamacare nightmare is about to end." washingtonpost.com (See also First 100 Days, Mike Pence) |
| 2017.02.24 | According to two new surveys, support for Obamacare is at an all-time high, as Republican leaders continue to press the case for repeal amid fierce resistance at many town halls. cnn.com (See also First 100 Days) |
| 2017.02.24 | As new details of the GOP plan emerge, Republican lawmakers expect their Obamacare replacement will result in fewer Americans covered by health insurance, a fact that’s likely to increase blowback amid growing support for the program. bloomberg.com (See also First 100 Days) |
| 2017.02.27 | At a meeting with health insurance CEOs, Trump urges them to work together to "save Americans from Obamacare". washingtonpost.com (See also First 100 Days) |
| 2017.03.08 | Top U.S. doctors' organization and several hospital groups come out strongly against a Republican plan to overhaul the Affordable Care Act. reuters.com (See also First 100 Days) |
| 2017.03.10 | The GOP plan backed by Trump to overhaul the Affordable Care Act clears its first hurdles in Congress, but its chances for passage look uncertain and top Republicans are scrambling to bring disgruntled conservatives aboard. reuters.com (See also First 100 Days) |
| 2017.03.13 | Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price and White House Budget Director Mike Mulvaney react to the Congressional Budget Office's estimate on the Republican health care bill, saying the CBO "has it wrong." c-span.org (See also Department of Health and Human Services, Tom Price, Mick Mulvaney) |
| 2017.03.14 | At least a dozen Republican senators, alarmed by a nonpartisan report showing millions would lose insurance under the GOP healthcare plan, warn that the bill wouldn’t become law without fundamental changes. wsj.com (See also First 100 Days) |
| 2017.03.15 | National poll finds there is very little support for the American Health Care Act, with only 24% of voters supporting it, and 49% opposed. publicpolicypolling.com (See also First 100 Days) |
| 2017.06.06 | Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Sheild will pull out of Ohio's Health Insurance Marketplace at the end of this year, blaming the uncertainty surrounding President Donald Trump’s-endorsed GOP plan to replace the ACA, as the impetus for the move. daytondailynews.com (See also Health Care) |
| 2017.06.13 | Trump told Republican senators that the House GOP health-care bill which he had then celebrated, was now “mean” and he expects the Senate to “improve” the legislation considerably. washingtonpost.com (See also Health Care, Hypocrisy) |
| 2017.06.14 | In recent national polls, only about 29 percent of Americans support the American Health Care Act. Even in the most supportive state, deep-red Oklahoma, only about 38 percent of voters support the law. nytimes.com (See also Health Care) It is the most unpopular piece of major legislation Congress has considered in decades, even more unloved than TARP (“the bailout”), and much more unpopular than the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. |
| 2017.06.22 | Former members of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS, who resigned last week in protest, say the Senate's new health care proposals will be devastating to people with the disease. buzzfeed.com (See also Health Care) "It will kill people — that's not hyperbole. There will be some people who will die from this." |
| 2017.07.18 | Trump has repeatedly told aides and advisers that he wants to end the subsidy payments supporting the Affordable Care Act, which would cause millions of vulnerable Americans to lose access to health coverage. politico.com (See also Unpresidential Behavior) |
| 2017.07.20 | The Trump administration has spent taxpayer money meant to encourage enrollment in the Affordable Care Act on a public relations campaign aimed at methodically strangling it. thedailybeast.com (See also Health Care, Department of Health and Human Services, Unprecedented Actions) |
| 2017.07.26 | In response to Senator Murkowski voting against the ACA repeal, Trump and his administration responded by tweeting at her and a phone call from Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke letting them know the vote had put Alaska's future with the administration in jeopardy. adn.com (See also Health Care, Unpresidential Behavior, Department of the Interior, Ryan Zinke) |
| 2017.07.28 | A months-long effort by Senate Republicans to pass health-care legislation collapsed early Friday after GOP Senator John McCain joined two of his colleagues to block a stripped-down Obamacare repeal bill. bloomberg.com (See also Health Care) |
| 2017.07.29 | Trump on Saturday threatened to end key payments to insurance companies made under ObamaCare if a repeal-and-replace bill is not passed. thehill.com (See also Unpresidential Behavior) |
| 2017.08.01 | Congressional Republicans moved to defuse Trump’s threat to cut off critical payments to health insurance companies, maneuvering around the president toward bipartisan legislation to shore up insurance markets under the Affordable Care Act. nytimes.com (See also Unprecedented Actions, Health Care) |
| 2017.08.10 | Actions by the Trump administration are triggering double-digit premium increases on individual health insurance policies purchased by many people, according to a nonpartisan study. apnews.com (See also Health Care, Unprecedented Actions) WASHINGTON (AP) — Actions by the Trump administration are triggering double-digit premium increases on individual health insurance policies purchased by many people, according to |
| 2017.08.15 | Premiums for the most popular health insurance plans would shoot up 20 percent next year, and federal budget deficits would increase by $194 billion in the coming decade, if Trump carried out his threat to end certain subsidies paid to insurance companies under the Affordable Care Act. nytimes.com (See also Health Care, Unpresidential Behavior) |
Assessments
- 2016.11.29 The Washington post reports on the likely impact on the ACA of Trump's pick for Secretary of health and Human service, Tom Price, who is a longtime critic of ACA. (Washington Post)
- 2016.12.27 The Washington Post reports on coal country Trump voters who now fear losing the ACA provision that allows longterm coal miners to receive disability benefits for black lung disease. (Washington Post)