OPINION: Why is Trump targeting his voters’ health care? | Brian Dickerson
Haters gonna hate, after all. And who hates anything more passionately than 45 hates 44?
It seems at times as if obliterating every vestige of
The
More: Trump's Obamacare cuts mean higher rates for Michiganders
The cost-sharing subsidies the president has pledged to end decrease premiums and out-of-pocket costs for lower-income workers who don't qualify for Medicaid but make up to 2 1/2 times the federal poverty rate. His decision will likely boost premiums for the 320,000 Michiganders who signed up for individual or small group coverage under Obamacare this year by an average of 26%.
In fairness, ending the subsidies was originally the
But in recent months, as it became apparent how hard red state workers would be hit by an abrupt suspension of subsidies, many
Only the president (and the libertarian fringe championed by
Perhaps the
As anyone with an IQ as prodigious as Trump's must know, life expectancy has risen pretty much in tandem with access to good health care. And if improved access to health care makes a person more likely to vote against Republican presidential candidates, Trump might reasonably be interested in not making sure this better-health-longer-life-expectancy cycle doesn't become too, you know, robust.
But probably it's just the pathological hatred of Obama thing. The president really should get some clinical help for that, before the whole country's life expectancy is at risk.
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