Kari Lake Would Repeal The ACA, Cut Over One Million Arizonans’ Health Care

For Immediate Release
Tuesday, November 28th, 2023
Contact: Olivia Taylor-Puckett, otpuckett@azdem.org
Kari Lake Would Repeal The ACA, Cut Over One Million Arizonans’ Health Care

ARIZONA -– Donald Trump recently said he’s going to repeal the Affordable Care Act, calling it “a low point for the Republican Party” that legislators did not “terminate” the ACA and rip away health care coverage from and raise costs for Arizona families. Kari Lake supports Trump’s dangerous push to repeal the ACA and risk Arizonans’ health care coverage.

Just last month Kari Lake said that that ACA should have been repealed under Trump:

“So we had an opportunity under President Trump when he first got in to repeal Obamacare and find a better alternative. And unfortunately, at the time, there were too many people secretly working against President Trump at that time…”

Lake also called for repealing the Affordable Care Act in her gubernatorial campaign:

“We need a red wave, and we need to overturn Obamacare and come up with something better. They were going to do that, remember? And one of our old Arizona senators went in late at night and gave the old thumbs down. We’ll never forget that.”

Kari Lake’s push to repeal the ACA would rip health care coverage away from 1,145,000 Arizonans with preexisting conditions.

Huffington Post: Kari Lake Calls For Repealing Obamacare: “Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake called for repealing the Affordable Care Act at a campaign event on Monday, bringing up an issue all but forgotten by her Republican Party. ‘We need a red wave, and we need to overturn Obamacare and come up with something better,’ Lake said at a campaign event in Scottsdale. Her comments drew no audible reaction from the crowd.”

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