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In 2010, we passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act - also known as the ACA or Obamacare. This was the first major change to our healthcare system since 1965 and increased healthcare coverage to 94% of our population. Obamacare is credited with giving about 23 million Americans healthcare, reducing prices due to increased competition, and prohibiting the abuses allowed by previous HMO policies which included denying coverage for pre-existing conditions, lifetime caps on benefits, and charging women higher premiums than men. Before and after its enactment the ACA faced strong political opposition, calls for repeal, and legal challenges. Polls initially found that many Americans opposed the ACA, although by 2017, its provisions were generally accepted and the law gained popular support. This same year, the Trump administration came within a



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  • I oppose reforming current Affordable Care Act policy and wish to donate resources to the campaign committee of Leader Charles Schumer (NY).
  • I support declaring the Department of Justice may not in any case, including in California v. Texas, No. 19–840, advocate that a court invalidate any provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act or any amendment made by that Act, and wish to donate resources to the campaign committee Sen. Charles Schumer (NY) and/or to an advocate group currently working with this issue.


Winning Option
  • I support declaring the Department of Justice may not in any case, including in California v. Texas, No. 19–840, advocate that a court invalidate any provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act or any amendment made by that Act, and wish to donate resources to the campaign committee Sen. Charles Schumer (NY) and/or to an advocate group currently working with this issue.
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Trustee Candidates

If elected as a trustee, the campaign committee of Sen. Charles Schumer (NY) will be unconditionally awarded the funds pledged to this issue along with a letter requesting him to favorably consider reintroducing S.4653 - A bill to protect the healthcare of hundreds of millions of people of the United States and prevent efforts of the Department of Justice to advocate courts to strike down the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

If elected as a trustee, Physicians for a National Health Program will be awarded the funds pledged to this issue along with a letter requesting these funds be used to advocate for preserving the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

About: Physicians for a National Health Program is a single issue organization advocating a universal, comprehensive single-payer national health program. We educate physicians and other health professionals about the benefits of a single-payer system - including fewer administrative costs and affording health insurance for the 30 million Americans who have none. PNHP performs research on the health crisis and the need for fundamental reform, coordinates speakers and forums, participates in town hall meetings and debates, contributes scholarly articles to peer-reviewed medical journals, and appears regularly on national television and news programs advocating for a single-payer system.
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Trustee Election - Opening Date
April 19, 2021
Trustee Election - Closing Date
April 26, 2021