When Donald Trump shocked America and won the presidency in November despite polls suggesting the election would narrowly be won by his opponent, the fate of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), better known as Obamacare, was all but set in stone.
In some ways Obamacare achieved everything it set out to do. It allowed millions of low-income and sicker individuals who’d previously been shut out of the system to obtain coverage, and it ultimately reduced the uninsured rate from 16% to less than 9%, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.