Fact check US: Is Obamacare ‘dysfunctional and too expensive’, as Trump claims?

William Genieys (1)

1 CEE - Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée (Sciences Po, CNRS)

1st lines : "During the first debate of the 2020 presidential campaign, Donald Trump attacked his challenger, Joe Biden, asserting that “Obamacare is too expensive; it doesn’t work”. The attack was unsurprising given Trump’s obsession with this major health care reform, formally known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Work on the law that would become the ACA was initiated in 2009 by the Obama administration with the goal of extending health insurance to more than 20 million Americans out of the 45 million who didn’t have coverage. It was signed into law on March 23, 2010. While the law did not succeed in reining in the cost of the US health care system – in 2010, the reform was estimated to cost $940 billion over 10 years, revised to $1.76 trillion just two years later – it has reduced the percentage of Americans without health insurance substantially. In 2013, 20.3% of US citizens had no health insurance. Today, that figure has fallen to slightly above 10%".

Mots clés: Republican party; Health care; Obamacare; US presidential elections; COVID-19

Domaines: Science politique

William Genieys. Fact check US: Is Obamacare ‘dysfunctional and too expensive’, as Trump claims?. 2020. ⟨hal-03139688⟩