Donald Trump criticized Obamacare health care costs and coverage (File)
The administration of President Donald Trump has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down the Obamacare law introduced by his predecessor, which added millions to the healthcare safety net, but has been a major political controversy.
Government lawyer Noel Francisco said on Thursday that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) – one of the achievements of former President Barack Obama – had become invalid after the previous US-led congress Republicans would have removed parts of it.
“Nothing that Congress 2017 demonstrated would have wanted the rest of the ACA to continue operating in the absence of these three integral provisions,” said Francisco, who heads the ministry’s solicitor general’s office. of Justice.
“No further analysis is necessary; once the individual mandate and the provisions for guaranteed issuance and community valuation are invalidated, the rest of the ACA cannot survive.”
Legal pressure will certainly be an important political battleground in the presidential election, where Trump is seeking re-election against the challenge of Democratic candidate Joe Biden in a vote in November.
“President Trump and the Republicans’ campaign to pluck the protections and benefits of the Affordable Care Act amid the coronavirus crisis is an act of unfathomable cruelty,” said the Speaker of the Democratic House of Representatives , Nancy Pelosi.
“If President Trump achieves his goals, 130 million Americans with pre-existing conditions will lose the vital protections of the ACA and 23 million Americans will completely lose their medical coverage.” There is no legal justification and no moral excuse for the Trump administration’s disastrous efforts to take away from the health care of Americans. “
Biden’s calls move “Callous”
The United States is the country most affected by COVID-19, with more than 1,24,000 deaths and 2.4 million infections.
It was the ACA that prohibited health insurers from denying coverage to Americans with pre-existing health conditions.
“It’s cruel, it’s heartless, it’s hard,” Biden said in a campaign speech Thursday on the bowel movement of Obamacare.
Trump has criticized the costs and coverage of healthcare under Obamacare and has promised since his 2016 campaign to replace it with a different plan.
Republicans view the law as excessive government intrusion into the health care market. They argue that the system is broken anyway and will help more people get coverage by repealing the law while working to minimize disruption for those who depend on it.
“Obamacare was an illegal failure and further illustrates the need to focus on patient care,” White House spokesperson Judd Deere said in the Washington Post after the filing on Thursday.
“The American people deserve that Congress work on a bipartisan basis with the President to provide quality and affordable care.”
The Trump administration file was filed in support of an ACA challenge by a coalition of Republican governors.
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