A Time Bomb In The Affordable Care Act Is Set To Go Off In 2025
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And the explosion could be massive if Donald Trump gets a second term as president.
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“Folks, he’s coming for your health care, and we’re not going to let that happen.”
Those are the closing words of a new 30-second ad from the Biden campaign, focusing on the Affordable Care Act and the possibility of repeal if Donald Trump becomes president again.
The ad buy is significant: $14 million to run the spot in a half dozen swing states, as my colleague S.V. Date reported. And it’s not difficult to understand why.
Trump’s attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act in 2017 was highly unpopular. The backlash was almost certainly a big reason Republicans managed to lose both houses of Congress and the presidency over the next two elections. Reminding voters of this history can only help Biden and the Democrats, especially amid polls that show the 2010 health care law to be more popular than ever.
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