The membership of the #Trumpregrets team is growing by leaps and bounds as Trump voters discover just what their hero has planned for them.
James Waltimire, a police officer on unpaid medical leave, has been going to the hospital in this small city twice a week for physical therapy after leg surgery, all of it paid for by Medicaid.Mr. Waltimire, 54, was able to sign up for the government health insurance program last year because Ohio expanded it to cover more than 700,000 low-income adults under the Affordable Care Act. He voted for President Trump—in part because of Mr. Trump’s support for law enforcement—but is now worried about the Republican plan to effectively end the Medicaid expansion through legislation to repeal the health care law.
“Originally the president said he wasn’t going to do nothing to Medicaid,” Mr. Waltimire said the other day after a rehab session. “Now they say he wants to take $880 billion out of Medicaid. That’s going to affect a lot of people who can’t afford to get insurance.”
Yes, Mr. Waltimire, yes it is. According the to CBO, it will affect 14 million people next year and 24 million in the next decade—including you and a lot of your fellow older, working-class white voters who backed the con man in the White House. You're the ones who are going to suffer first, maybe, but you're going to bring a lot of Americans down with you.
Trumpcare is a travesty: It cuts taxes for the rich, kills Medicaid expansion for the poor, and defunds Planned Parenthood. We can defeat it in the Senate if you call the Capitol Hill switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and contact your senators.