Monday, March 20, 2017
Register-Herald (Beckley, W. Va.): West Virginians should take note: the Republican-led Congress is coming for your health care – with President Donald Trump’s blessing.
Based on our reading of the proposed replacement of the Affordable Care Act, the GOP’s health care plan works out pretty well for young, urban elites – a voting bloc (minus the Trump children) that cast its lot with Hillary Clinton last fall. And who takes the hit? Older, rural, working-class citizens – people who voted for Trump.
If the legislation becomes law, it will be a flaming disaster for West Virginia, a state already under serious economic stress
Meanwhile, just know that the candidate (Trump) and the party (GOP) that promised good things for working- class Americans are preparing to make your lives a whole lot more difficult to manage.
The hammer is about to fall. Put on your hard hat.