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Solution of U.S. Healthcare Problems Postponed until 2020 Presidential Elections
Solution of U.S. Healthcare Problems Postponed until 2020 Presidential Elections
Annotation

After the Republicans tried to repeal the Affordable Care Act, 2010 (ACA) at the U.S. 115 Congress (2016-2018), including the provision for the protection of patients with a preexisting condition, the party lost more than 40 seats in the country's highest legislative body. Democrats for the first time in the last decade have achieved a majority in the lower house. Leader of the Republican minority in it, Kevin McCarthy, California, called health care "the defining and most important issue in the electoral race." Nancy Pelosi, Democrat, from the State of California, Speaker of the House of Representatives, said it was necessary to focus on ideas that won a majority of seats in the House of Representatives for Democrats in 2018, in particular, on providing "health care for millions of Americans." D. Trump promised his supporters first of all in the presidential chair to annul the Affordable Care Act (2010), known as Obamacare. Many copies have already been broken by the "ridge" of "Obamacare," but it is still "more alive than dead". At the beginning of April 2019, President D. Trump made a statement that the Republican Party is no longer the “health care party”, and that the president intends to raise the issue of healthcare after the 2020 elections because now the House of Representatives is under the control of Democrats. President D. Trump was forced to admit that the solution of the public health problem should be postponed till after the 2020 elections “when the Republicans will retain the Senate and return the House of Representatives” and then the Congress will vote for the Republican health plan. Democrats have decided to concentrate in their work in the House of Representatives before the 2020 elections on their legislative agenda among which health care problems are obviously central.

About authors
Nadezhda Shvedova
Institute for the U.S. and Canadian Studies The Russian Academy of Sciences
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