“The idea in the middle of COVID-19 to eliminate health insurance from 100,000 people in my district is a new disaster,” Shalala said, noting that Florida hasn’t expanded Medicaid, leaving more than 400,000 Floridians currently uninsured. “It would create a huge gap. More importantly just think of individual people who suddenly lose their health insurance, and we’re in the middle of a pandemic.”
Trump, who claims full-time residence in Florida, has not backed away from his efforts to eradicate his predecessor’s signature legislative achievement. Just Tuesday, the president touted Republican efforts to overturn the Affordable Care Act during a speech to young Republicans at a Phoenix church.
“We eliminated Obamacare’s unfair individual mandate, which punished young Americans, like you, for the privilege of not buying bad health insurance,” he said.
But federal data shows many Floridians are receiving their coverage through the health law, which was adopted in 2010.
The average monthly premium for Floridians with ACA coverage in 2020 is $597. But more than 1.78 million of the 1.9 Floridians enrolled in the ACA marketplace this year received a federal tax credit to make their insurance premiums more affordable, with those qualifying paying an average of $98 a month for coverage.
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