As Dan Diamond points out in the Washington Post, for the third consecutive year Obamacare has hit a record level of enrollment. On Wednesday, the Biden administration announced that over 21 million people have signed up for a plan in Affordable Care Act marketplaces.
The enrollment figures reflect a roughly 80 percent surge in sign-ups for the ACA since President Biden took office in 2021 and expanded the subsidies available to consumers.
“[T]he American people have made it clear: they don’t want the Affordable Care Act weakened and repealed — they want it strengthened and protected,” Biden said in a statement.
It’s a very successful program. Trump promised to kill it but he failed. Now he’s coming back like a zombie promising to kill it if he’s elected president for a second term.
“I don’t want to terminate Obamacare, I want to REPLACE IT with MUCH BETTER HEALTHCARE. Obamacare Sucks!!!” Trump wrote in a November 2023 post on Truth Social, his social media platform.
Sixty percent of Americans have a positive view of the Affordable Care Act and Republican strategists don’t want to mess with it. But Trump doesn’t have very many legislative priorities, and he’s committed to blotting out President Barack Obama’s signature achievement.
Even if he can’t repeal the law, he will definitely reverse the trend in record enrollment. Everything Trump touches turns to shit.
