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The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office reported that under Trumpcare, 14 million people will lose their health care next year and 24 million by 2026.
This is because Trumpcare hands a whopping $465 billion in tax breaks to the wealthy and big health care corporations, paid for by slashing Medicaid and gutting financial support to help working families buy health insurance.
I am recovering from an ACL/MCL surgery, a surgery that I would never be able to afford without the ACA. By profession I'm a dance and pilates teacher and trainer. Because of the ACA, in a year I will again be able to make a living, teaching children dance, helping the elderly and infirm rein use of their limbs.
A year from now, should Trumpcare pass, I will most likely be crippled and unemployed.
Elizabeth King
Cottonwood Heights