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The doctor is in: Donald Trump and Louisiana’s uncertain health care What’s next for Louisiana if Trump repeals the Affordable Care Act?

Source: bestofneworleans.com/gambit/the-doctor-is-in-donald-trump-and-louisianas-uncertain-health-care/Content?oid=3075426 - Dec 19, 2016

While the ACA was made law in 2010, it was opposed by then-Gov. Bobby Jindal, who refused to accept the federal Medicaid dollars that would expand the ACA in Louisiana. Gov. John Bel Edwards campaigned on accepting that money, and Obamacare became available to uninsured Louisianans in July. Since then, more than 350,000 residents of one of the nation's poorest and least healthy states have now received health insurance through the program. But it remained controversial, both nationally and statewide.

  A 2014 survey by the University of New Orleans Survey Research Center found that one-half (49 percent) of Louisianans "strongly oppose" the ACA, while only 27 percent "strongly approve" of the legislation. But when it came to specific parts of the ACA, those polled were in favor of many of Obamacare's provisions, including the creation of a health insurance marketplace; requiring health insurance companies to cover anyone, even those with pre-existing medical conditions; and requiring that all Americans have health insurance, even if it meant government aid for the poorest.

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