Paul Krugman: Trump Clearly Despises the Very Voters Who Elected Him
Paul Krugman: Trump Clearly Despises the Very Voters Who Elected Him
The New York Times columnist imagines the "apocalypse" that would befall West Virginia if the GOP gets its way.
By Jacob Sugarman / AlterNet May 26, 2017
According to the Congressional Budget Office, the latest iteration of the American Health Care Act will strip 23 million people of their insurance by 2026, gutting Medicaid and decimating coverage of pre-existing conditions. Then there's the Trump administration's newest budget plan, which calls for steep cuts to scores of federal assistance programs. The only logical conclusion to be drawn from these dual proposals, argues the New York Times' Paul Krugman, is that the president despises the very voters who elected him president.
In his Friday column, he hypothesizes how Trump's health care bill and austerity measures might affect a state like West Virginia, which voted overwhelmingly for him in the 2016 election.
Twenty-nine percent of its residents are on Medicaid, 19 percent rely on food stamps and 4 percent receive disability payments via Social Security, the highest rate in the country and one of the coal industry's lasting legacies. If a Republican-controlled Congress has its way, the results would be "apocalyptic":
Hundreds of thousands would lose health insurance; medical debt and untreated conditions would surge; and there would be an explosion in extreme poverty, including a lot of outright hunger.
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