A poll released by Fox News last October showed that the majority of Americans approved of the Affordable Care Act, despite Republican efforts to repeal the legislation.
Two new research studies have shown that the Affordable Care Act — the 2010 legislation commonly referred to as"Obamacare" — had successfully curbed disparities in cancer treatment and allowed many to receive treatment at an earlier stage, while the administration of President Donald Trump has continued to fight to repeal the healthcare legislation.
Supporters of the Affordable Care Act gather in front of the Supreme Court during a rally on March 4, 2015 in Washington, D.C. Alex Wong/Getty Images “If [Americans] don’t have insurance, they won’t have a screening test — and then they turn up in the emergency department with stage-four cancer,” she warned.
Anna Jo Smith, a lead author of the Johns Hopkins study, pointed out that greater access to healthcare has a major role in treatment outcomes. Meanwhile, Trump reignited the fight against Obamacare in March when his administration chose to support a lawsuit challenging the legislation’s constitutionality. The move came after unsuccessful efforts to repeal and replace the landmark act through Congress, despite Republicans having control of both bodies of the legislative branch during Trump’s first two years in office.
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