KFF Health NewsJun 27 2024
This rural part of the state is ruby red. Trump flags fly over the landscape and businesses proudly display pro-Trump paraphernalia. Biden supporters are more visible and vocal in the Wisconsin population centers of Madison, the capital, and Milwaukee. "There are thousands of people coming across the border," said Laabs, 71. He noted that both Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris endorsed providing public health care to immigrants without legal residency as presidential candidates in 2019, a position that Harris' home state of California has enthusiastically embraced. "We cannot support the whole world," Laabs said.
Trump has said he wants to repeal Obamacare, despite multiple failed Republican attempts to do so over several years. "The cost of Obamacare is out of control," Trump wrote last year. "I'm seriously looking at alternatives.""I signed up for one of the Obamacare plans and got my cholesterol and blood sugar tested and it was like $500," said Mary Vils, 63, a Democrat who lives in Portage County in central Wisconsin.
"We have to get the Medicaid expansion money," Evers told KFF Health News. "That would solve a lot of problems." But attendees at the town hall event told Tanden and the secretary of Health and Human Services, Xavier Becerra, that they have lost access to care as hospitals and rural health clinics have closed.