Donald Trump has repeatedly vowed a full repeal of the Affordable Care Act, commonly called Obamacare. But his election may be helping fuel an enrollment surge in the very program that he and a Republican-controlled Congress eventually aim to dismantle.
President Barack Obama’s signature domestic achievement became a late entrant into the presidential race amid a flurry of reports about rising premiums and major health insurers’ defections from the health law’s individual insurance marketplaces in 2017.
These issues are considerably more complicated than the top-line political talking points surrounding Obamacare. Nonetheless, they provided significant fodder to Republicans, in general, and Trump, specifically, to slam the ACA, which GOP lawmakers have voted to repeal dozens of times—only to be dashed by Obama’s veto pen—and are now pledging to actually do away with once Trump takes office.
But it turns out that undoing legislation that’s currently covering 20 million Americans may not be that simple...
http://fortune.com/2016/11/10/donald-trump-obamacare-enrollment-surge/

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