On this edition of Your Call’s media roundtable, we're discussing a Capital & Main analysis that details how many people gained or lost health insurance under Donald Trump and President Biden.
At the end of the first two years of Biden’s presidency, 3.3 million more US residents had health insurance than did so in 2019, according to a Capital & Main analysis of US Census data conducted with the support of Thomas Data Consulting. That increase led to a 1.2 percent decline in the national uninsured rate and the lowest rate of residents without health insurance in US history.
By contrast, Donald Trump oversaw an increase of 2.3 million uninsured people during the first three years of his presidency and a 0.6 percent increase in the national uninsured rate. Under Trump, 39 states saw increases in their uninsured rates, and the number of uninsured people swelled by more than 440,000 across the key battleground states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, according to census data.
Guest:
Jeremy Lindenfeld, California local news fellow with Capital & Main
Resources:
Capital & Main: Trump Criticizes Affordable Care Act as New Census Data Shows Record Low Number of People Without Health Insurance
