By Brad Reed
Donald Trump this week signaled his support for the House
Republicans’ new health care bill — but it looks like that legislation
is going over like a lead balloon with his base.
Not only are the Trump diehards at Breitbart News bashing the plan as “Obamacare 2.0,” but even some casual voters are worried about the president’s plan.
ABC News this week talked with
North Carolina resident Martha Brawley, a 55 year old woman who cast a
ballot for the first time in her life for Donald Trump. Brawley says
that she voted for the president on the hopes that he could bring down
the cost of health care — but she’s been appalled so far by what she’s
seen from the Republican Congress.
“I voted for Trump hoping that
he would change the insurance so I could get good health care,” she told
ABC News. “I might as well have not voted.”
Brawley was
particularly upset when she learned that, under Trumpcare, she would
receive a paltry $3,500 tax credit to buy insurance. At the moment, she
gets a federal subsidy of around $8,688 to buy insurance from Obamacare.
“All these people who talk in politics have insurance,” she told ABC News. “People like me don’t.”
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