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| Does Vance have a Hillbilly ACA Elegy for us? |
10/2/24: See post-debate update at bottom.
My last post focused on JD Vance’s sketch of a “concept of a plan” for “building on” the ACA in a second Trump administration. Vance’s remarks on Meet the Press last Sunday seem to promise a more sweeping version of the alternative market of medically underwritten, ACA-noncompliant health plans established by the first Trump administration.
Here I want to focus on a bit of purported family history that Vance injected into his paean to Trump’s alleged improvements to the ACA. This is to encourage political journalists to ask Vance exactly what he’s referring to in the highlighted section below.
