President Donald trump has threatened to stop government payments to insurance companies or Congress, if Congress will not repeal Obamacare.
About this trump wrote yesterday, on Saturday, on his Twitter.
Recall the vote on the repeal of the «affordable care Act», better known as Obamacare, failed after against repeal was voted by the Democrats and three Republican senators, including the Senator from Arizona John McCain.
According to Reuters, in his tweet trump is referring to subsidies of $8 billionthat the government pays insurance companies to reduce prices for medical services for low-income Americans.
As for Congress, we are talking about the congressmen and their assistants, whose health insurance is subsidized by the state under the law of Obamacare since 2010.
«If the President would carry out this threat, insurance companies will raise rates on medical care, and it becomes more expensive for millions of Americans,» — said the leader of the Democrats in the Senate, Chuck Schumer.
Schumer added that trump needs to stop «playing politics with the lives and health of people and to start finally acting like a President.»
Himself Donald trump later called on Republicans to try again to vote for the abolition of Obamacare, while the senators went to the August break in the session.
As for ordinary Americans, according to a new poll by Reuters/Ipsos, 64% of 1136 respondents said that they want to keep Obamacare «completely» or «after correcting some problem points.»
Only 29% of respondents said that Congress should consider health first. Most would prefer that Republicans and Democrats first drew attention to the problems of tax reform, foreign policy and infrastructure.
