3.2 Million Americans Gave Up Health Insurance Last Year, Study Finds
“Donald Trump and his congressional allies spent most of last year trying to push 22 million Americans off of health insurance. A new survey from Gallup suggests they came up about 19 million short. Although Trump & Co. failed to pass an Obamacare-repeal bill, their concerted efforts to undermine the law — on both the legislative and administrative levels — ultimately bore fruit. At the end of 2016, a record-low 10.9 percent of Americans lacked health insurance; by the end of last year, that percentage had risen to 12.2. That’s the first annual increase in the uninsured rate since the Affordable Care Act took effect, one that leaves 3.2 million previously insured Americans without coverage.”