Donald Trump has shown his true colors about health insurance for Americans. He said during the campaign, and immediately after being sworn in, that he wanted a better plan for Americans -- one that would cover all Americans with health insurance. But he has not kept his word.
Every Republican plan that he backed would take health insurance away from millions of Americans. None of those terrible plans were able to get enough votes to pass, so Trump decided to destroy Obamacare on his own (with executive orders). He has signed orders that would let insurance companies offer low-benefit plans and would stop the government subsidies to help insurance companies keep their premium costs down.
The effect of those orders is that many Americans will lose their insurance, and the others will see their insurance costs rise sharply. Trump's hatred of Obama (and the insurance plan he passed) has caused him to make the health insurance system in the U.S. significantly worse. Now, he must own the failing system -- failing mainly due to his own actions.
And he may have hurt his party in next year's elections. The public didn't want his actions. About 71% wanted him to make Obamacare work better, not make it fail (as he has now done).And 60% wants the payments guaranteed (the same payments that Trump has stopped). Also, 66% want the efforts to repeal Obamacare to stop, and for Obamacare to be improved.
The charts above are from a new survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation -- done between October 5th and 10th of a random national sample of 1,215 adults, with a 3 point margin of error.
