Despite Donald Trump’s lies and sabotage, Obamacare market reaches major new milestone
Donald Trump and the Republican Party have been lying about Obamacare for as long as Obamacare has existed. They’ve told every lie about it they could possibly come up with, in the hope of scaring conservatives into believing that a beneficial health care reform law was some kind of evil socialist destruction of health care as we know it. Trump and the GOP are still lying about Obamacare as we speak, claiming it’s in a death spiral. But it turns out that couldn’t be further from the truth.
Trump has even taken steps to try to sabotage Obamacare by withholding funding. But for as many times as he’s falsely claimed this year that the insurers are all pulling out and that no one can find a policy anymore, the opposite is true. As of today, every single county in the United States is now offering private insurance plans to individuals, as reported by Politico (link). So much for Trump’s imaginary stories of all the imaginary counties across the country where no one can get an Obamacare policy.
The nonstop tidal wave of lies from the Republican Party led to Obamacare having long been far less popular than it should be. Most of the people who were benefitting from it didn’t even know they were benefiting, even as far too many people fell for the fictional negative claims about it. But after President Obama left office and it became clear that the Republicans never did have any plan for how to “repeal and replace” it, Americans began figuring out that Obamacare is a lot better than any GOP alternative – and its popularity has reached all time highs.
There are still things that need to be revised, tweaked, and reformed about Obamacare. That’s been the case from the very start, as tends to be the case with any new social program. But because the Republicans took over the House shortly after Obamacare became law, they blocked nearly every effort to reform it, in the hope of making it as much of a failure as they were falsely claiming it was. So there’s still work to be done. But Americans are figuring out that Obamacare is a damn good program – and that Trump and the Republicans have been lying about it all along.
