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Vast majority of Obamacare applications from Trump-voting states
The figure suggests that Trump will struggle to make any significant changes to the program without alienating his supporters.
www.newsweek.com
What's New?
Four in five of those taking part in Obamacare in 2025 are from states which voted for Donald Trump, indicating that the President-elect risks backlash from his own base if the incoming administration takes aim at the program.According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), over three million Americans, including around 500,000 new consumers, signed up for coverage through the Health Insurance Marketplace, established by the Affordable Care Act (ACA), between November 1 and November 22. The majority of these three million hail from Florida and Texas, followed by California with over 280,000 applications.
As highlighted by Reuters, of the more than three million people who have indicated that they will participate in Obamacare in 2025, 82 percent of these people live in states which voted for Trump over Vice President Harris in the recent election.
Why It Matters
The statistic indicates that many of those who voted for the former president to return to the White House may be those most affected if his circle follow through on planned changes to federal services to draw down the national deficit.During a late-October campaign event, House Speaker Mike Johnson said that reform to the U.S. health care system would be a "big part of the agenda" in Trump's second term. Asked by an attendee whether the changes to health care would mean "no Obamacare," Johnson replied: "No Obamacare."
"The ACA is so deeply ingrained, we need massive reform to make this work," Johnson added, "and we got a lot of ideas on how to do that."
U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) speaks to reporters outside of the House Chambers in the U.S. Capitol on December 19, 2024 in Washington, DC. During a campaign event in October, Johnson said... More Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images
Trump himself floated alternatives to the ACA, stating during the September presidential debate that Obamacare was "lousy healthcare," and that he possessed "concepts of a plan" to replace the program.
During his first term, Trump pursued several strategies to dismantle the ACA, drawing from the Republican "repeal and replace" movement which arose in opposition to Obama's signature legislation.
The most notable of these was the so-called "skinny repeal," a legislative effort led by Trump to scale back some of Obamacare's more controversial provisions, which failed in the Senate thanks to a party-bucking vote from John McCain.