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Popular vote loser Donald Trump will do everything in his power to destroy Obamacare, even if Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell fails in his last-ditch effort to pass his repeal bill. And every single Republican in office will own the consequences.
President Donald Trump, who regularly says Obamacare is dead, has already taken steps to undermine the law even as the legislative battle over repeal drags on. His administration has slashed crucial advertising dollars, cut the enrollment window in half, and regularly pumps out anti-Obamacare videos and graphics — actions sure to reduce the number of people who sign up.
Trump has plenty of other options to roll back a program covering roughly 20 million Americans. Those include ending enforcement of the mandate to carry insurance, imposing work restrictions and nominal premiums on low-income adults who qualify for Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion and letting states relax the law’s robust coverage rules.
The man charged with the oversight of many of these decisions, Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, noted in his confirmation hearing that Obamacare grants him broad authority about how to enact it — powers that in his hands could be used to the scale back the law's reach.
“Fourteen hundred and forty-two times the ACA said ‘the secretary shall’ or ‘the secretary may,’” Price noted in March.
It's been shown in pretty much every poll on the issue in the last several months that voters know who is in charge and who they will blame when it all comes crashing down, and it sure as hell isn't Democrats. They prefer Obamacare 2-1 over what Republicans have put forward, so it seems like now would be a really good time for Republicans to take the advice of all the smart people—like all the doctors—and start working against Trump to make sure it survives.
Make your Republican senator feel the heat. Call their office EVERY DAY at (202) 224-3121 to demand that they say NO to repealing Obamacare and ripping health care away from millions of Americans. After your call, tell us how it went.