Ahead of the South Carolina primary, voters talked to NBCNews about why health care is one of the most important issues to them: 'People are dying, and so many more are hurting. This has to be fixed,' one woman said of health care coverage gaps.
But then the Trump administration ended subsidy payments for the program, weakened the individual mandate, and reduced advertising funding and the enrollment period. By 2018, the uninsured rate crept up again to 13 percent.
That political reality has led some to argue that South Carolina’s only hope to expand the public health care option is through the federal government. That means the 2020 presidential electioncould be the difference for a Democratic electorate in South Carolina that features more minorities and low-income people than its Republican counterpart.
As the group has focused its sights on the black community, it seems apparent that Potter was also openly chipping away at the firewall of former Vice President Joe Biden, who has hitched his presidential prospects on the black community and South Carolina but remains opposed to Medicare for All. The group plans to pursue similar campaigns in states after Super Tuesday, and intends to specifically target Wisconsin — a state that hasn’t expanded Medicaid and is the host of the Democratic National Convention later this year.
Biden’s plan, meanwhile, was an attractive option because Laurie said it could draw support beyond progressive Democrats and resolve South Carolina’s health care issue at the federal level, circumventing the state government.
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