I still believe that if Trump manages to get his health care bill passed, it will ultimately secure his re-election. Sure, there will be screaming about people losing their health insurance, and sick people unable to get health care. But that will always be the minority of people. Most people are healthy, and so most people will see their premiums go down, because they won’t be having to subsidize the sick anymore. You only need a majority of voters to win an election.

I have many friends who were able to get health care for the first time in their lives when the ACA passed. But every time I mention that to my Trump-supporting friends, they simply don’t care - they just say “but my premiums went up, why should I have to pay for someone else’s health care?”. That sentiment got Trump elected, it was what his voters asked him to fix, and that is what he is doing. I don’t see anything that would make that sentiment change. And for each screaming anti-Trump comment at the bottoms of ACHA stories, there are responses calling them snowflakes and people saying I don’t want to pay for your problems.

This is a fundamental philosophical issue. Should a country take care of its sick? I think that the current stance of a majority of Americans is no, every man for himself.