Discussion: Uninsured Population Increases By 3.2 Million In Trump's First Year In Office

[tena]

So. Much. Winning.

[beattycat]

@lizzymom

Oh boy, Donnie will be so pleased! His uninsured population numbers are higher than Obama’s!! And they’re gonna just keep going up!!!

This should be tweeted:

“MAGA – Pres. Donald J.Trump’s numbers HIGHER than Barack Hussein Obama’s! 3.2M more people now freer from gov’t regulations! (No pesky healthcare insurance rules for them) Keep those numbers going in this direction, America. Winning!!”

Chances he’ll RT it?

[lizzymom]

Since he only half “reads” stuff, I’d say the chances are damned high, Cat.

[keninmn]

@easydm

Meanwhile, nearly all of the rest of THE WORLD covers ALL it’s people.

For half the cost of our “system”…

[tena]

Our system sucks. It’s the worst on the planet in my opinion. Healthcare for profit is obscene. You can’t make one viable moral argument in support of it.

[keninmn]

@clauscph

And Donald’s approval rating has risen to 39.3 (low was 36.4), that tax cut sure is popular…

I wouldn’t read too much into that. His approval rating among Republican’ts (you know, the people who actually always show up to vote in non-presidential-year elections) is still greater than 80%, and his approval among Independents (you know, that group of people where many are simply too embarrassed to admit that they are Republican’ts but still religiously vote for Republican’ts anyway) is still in the mid 30s. We still have a lot of work to do defining a message centered around why people should proactively vote for Democrats rather than relying on a message of “Donald Trump SUCKS!” That isn’t going to be good enough, as shown by the last election. Nothing short of a complete economic collapse will turn that into a winning strategy, and I really would hate to see my fellow Democrats actively rooting for Americans to lose their jobs, homes, healthcare and lives just because we’re too lazy/stupid/cynical/tribal/no-better-than-Republican’ts/owned-by-plutocrats to actually craft and run a truly people-oriented campaign…

Presidential Approval Ratings -- Donald Trump

[frasca]

3.2 million new uninsured means that 3000 more people will die in the US this year.

[fiftygigs]

3.2 million more people uninsured

That’s okay.

Trump’s base will pay their expenses. After all, why pay for it when Trump will make it free?

[caltg]

“Over the course of President Donald Trump’s first year in office, the number of Americans without health insurance increased 1.3 percent…”

And that’s just the beginning. Paul Ryan must be so pleased.

Making America Great Again???

[sadieholly]

Well, they are cutting the budgets of the CDC and NIH. so, yeah.

[eldonlazar]

It’s likely that a large share of these folks were Drumpf voters. I wonder if the cause/effect relationship will sink in?