Affordable Care Act
President Trump, how will you make health care affordable to gig and contract workers if you roll back the ACA?
A growing number of people now work in the gig economy. Ride-hailing apps are sometimes primary sources of income for folks or a way for people to make extra money. For many freelancers, the Affordable Care Act is the way to get health insurance. But what happens to these workers if it gets repealed?
‘The waiting is tearing me down’ — low-income Americans struggle in anti-Obamacare states
While the ranks of the uninsured in the US have dropped sharply under Obamacare, around four million low-income Americans are still left out of the program in states that did not expand Medicaid. And while those states wrestle with the federal government, ordinary citizens say they’re suffering.