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US President Donald Trump used a rural health care event at the White House on Friday to level sharp criticism at former President Barack Obama and Democrats.
Watch the event in the video player above.
The president quickly turned his rural health care forum into a grievance session against Democrats and a boasting session about the votes he received in rural America.
“All I care about is the rural community… We take care of these great people,” he said, arguing that Obama “didn’t care about the rural community, to be quite frank.”
“The Democrats are absolutely terrible for the rural community,” Trump added. He asked voters to “remember… in the midterms” that Democrats did not support the “big, beautiful bill” that included $10 billion for rural health care this year.
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Trump effectively blamed Obama’s Affordable Care Act for rural hospital closures and financial struggles. In fact, KFF found that rural hospitals closed at a higher rate in states that did not expand Medicaid under Democrats’ 2010 health care overhaul than in states that expanded to receive more federal money.
While he claimed that corrupt politicians in several Democratic-run states led to fraud — California, Minnesota and New Mexico in name — Trump also said health care could be a “Republican issue” in the midterms.
He is pushing for bipartisan support for a GOP proposal to replace the Affordable Care Act’s expanded subsidies with individual health savings accounts.
Trump said he hoped to get votes from Democrats but said Republicans could control the issue without them.
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Recent AP-NORC polls show why Trump is worried. Approval of Trump’s handling of health care was 34% in November. It fell to 29% in December.
Most of the decline came from Republicans. In November, 68% of Republicans had a favorable view of Trump’s handling of health care. In December, although still a majority, it had fallen to 59%.
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