They nominated a presidential candidate that has more bipartisan support than any other in modern American history. Trump cabinet members, GOP congressman, GOP governors, multiple conservative super pacs, a bunch of the Busch administration all endorsing a democratic candidate. Quite impressive really.
17% of people believe that ACA has been repealed? Like.... How in gods name would you beleive something like that?
People just believe him. To be as loyal as his base is, you kind of have to. If I believed him I'd be a huge Trump fan.
August 2016:
“One of my first acts as President will be to repeal and replace disastrous Obamacare, saving another 2 million American jobs.”
Jan 2017, just before inaguration:
“It will be repeal and replace. It will be essentially simultaneously. It will be various segments, you understand, but will most likely be on the same day or the same week, but probably the same day. Could be the same hour.”
December 2017 Cabinet meeting:
“When the individual mandate is being repealed, that means Obamacare is being repealed,”
May 2018 Rally:
“Essentially, we are getting rid of Obamacare. Some people would say, essentially, we have gotten rid of it.”
Well.... I guess he's not fully wrong if you think of it in the realm of ObamaCare effectively being gutted. As removing the individual mandate kinda kills the idea of putting health people in the same plan as sick people so that it would bring costs down overall (this, to me, is still theory though) I don't think the mandate was 'big enough' to force people to even get the health insurance. Most would rather just take their chances (as for them, in their experiences, it has been cheaper to not have health insurance)or just hope to get a job with health insurance at some point.
We should all take note of the fact that ObamaCare was a program that shifted the burden of health insurance from the poor and sick people to those that are in the middle class. Some may say that it also shifted it to the wealthy (as I think there was some sort of tax that was placed on the wealthy in regards to ObamaCare.
