White Paper: After the Affordable Care Act:Freedom for All vs. Medicare for All

摘要

In 2017, the Association of American Physicians andSurgeons (AAPS) produced and circulated a White Paperon repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act (ACA),known as “ObamaCare.”1 Republicans were elected basedon campaign promises to repeal that unipartisan Democratlaw, but as our White Paper predicted, this proved to be asdifficult as uprooting kudzu. Limited congressional efforts,which fell far short of full repeal, were finally killed by thelate Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) dramatic thumbs-downgesture, while he himself was dying of brain cancer. TheTrump Administration promulgated rules that liberalizedACA policies and thereby permitted more Americans tochoose to buy affordable health insurance. This was called“sabotage” by ACA defenders. In the 2018 midterm election,“healthcare” was a leading campaign issue, as “healthcarevoters” increasingly aligned with the Democratic Socialists ofAmerica, who are proposing “Medicare for All.”.