Expert analysis shows widespread impacts
President Trump’s sudden move against the 2010 Affordable Care Act throws the health insurance of more than 150 million Americans directly into question, government data and independent analysis show.
‘You’d be hard-pressed to find anyone who wouldn’t be affected.’ —Larry Levitt, a senior health-policy analyst at the Kaiser Family Foundation The fresh legal bid to overturn the law, better known as “Obamacare,” would have sweeping implications for almost everyone else in the country as well, experts say. That challenge is widely expected to go all the way to the Supreme Court.
Obamacare, a sweeping health-care reform bill that ran to more than 1,000 pages, was controversial when it was passed. But opinion polls have consistently shown that many more people criticized the law than understood it, and many of its key provisions are individually popular.
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