President Trump
Donald John Trump Miami-Dade will close the beaches during the weekend of July 4 by coronavirus fears that an Oklahoma reporter will test positive for COVID-19 after attending the Trump rally in Tulsa Trump criticizes the Governor of Illinois, Mayor for violence in Chicago calls for ‘law and order’ MORE On Saturday, he reiterated a promise to protect people with pre-existing conditions after his administration asked the Supreme Court this week to topple ObamaCare, the Republicans’ latest move to dismantle the health law.
“Now that we have finished the very expensive, unpopular, and unfair Individual Mandate provision, many States and the United States are asking the Supreme Court to cancel Obamacare so that it can be replaced by a MUCH BETTER AND MUCH LESS EXPENSIVE ALTERNATIVE, Trump tweeted on Saturday morning.
Obamacare is a joke! The deductible is too high and the total cost is ridiculous. My administration has done its best to administer OC much better than before, but still not good. I WILL ALWAYS PROTECT PEOPLE WITH EXPECTED CONDITIONS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS! “she added.
…. Obamacare is a joke! The deductible is too high and the total cost is ridiculous. My administration has done its best to administer OC much better than before, but still not good. I WILL ALWAYS PROTECT PEOPLE WITH EXPECTED CONDITIONS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS!
– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 27, 2020
Trump has long criticized former President Obama’s signature health law. His latest tweet comes as the administration faces criticism for his effort this week to crush the Affordable Care Act (ACA) amid the coronavirus pandemic.
On Thursday, the administration filed a legal report with the Supreme Court requesting that the ACA law be invalidated, a measure that would eliminate health insurance coverage for some 20 million people and make medical care a major problem at just over four months of the presidency. choice.
The report argues that because the law’s requirement for health insurance was upheld in court as a tax in 2012 and Congress repealed the financial penalty for violating that requirement in 2017, it is no longer a tax and, therefore, therefore, it is no longer constitutional.
The administration argues that because this provision is invalid and the rest of the law is so intertwined with this provision, the entire law should be removed.
The ACA provision that protects people with pre-existing conditions from losing their insurance is one of the most popular aspects of the law. Trump has repeatedly maintained that such protections will remain in place despite his administration’s efforts to repeal the entire law.
Democrats quickly seized on the administration’s latest Supreme Court filing as particularly ill-timed during a pandemic that has already killed more than 125,000 people in the U.S. And is seeing a resurgence in several southern and southwestern states.
“President Trump and the Republican campaign to rip off the protections and benefits of the Affordable Care Act amid the coronavirus crisis is an act of unfathomable cruelty,” Speaker said. Nancy Pelosi
Nancy PelosiPelosi: Trump doesn’t wear a mask is ‘coward’ House approves statehood for DC in vote 232-180 Clyburn threatens to end coronavirus committee in-person hearings if Republicans don’t wear masks MORE (D-Calif.) He said in a statement.
Trump campaigned to repeal and replace ObamaCare, though he has not put forward his own alternative to signing the health care law during his tenure at the White House. An effort to repeal ObamaCare failed in the Senate in 2017.
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