2020 Democrats rally around Obamacare amid Trump's new bid to kill the health care law
The move by the Justice Department -- telling a federal appeals court on Monday that the Affordable Care Act should be struck down in its entirety -- shifts the political lens back to the issue that helped bolster Democratic victories in the 2018 midterms: health care -- and specifically, Republican efforts to undercut President Barack Obama's signature law.Across the board, Democratic contenders lambasted the Trump administration's move.
"It's about people's lives and it's about health care," he said. Trump's latest effort to undo Obamacare will also raise the stakes of Democrats' intra-party debate over whether to pursue a single-payer health system that eliminates private insurers or set that long-term goal aside in favor of incremental steps toward universal coverage. A Sanders aide said the administration's move elevates what the Vermont senator's camp saw as one of his top issues.
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