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US healthcare prices set to skyrocket after ‘Obamacare’ scrapped | Al Jazeera

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US healthcare prices set to skyrocket after ‘Obamacare’ scrapped | Al Jazeera



[dropcap]Many[/dropcap] people in the US will soon have to pay a lot more for health insurance after President Donald Trump‘s administration decided to do away with former President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act – also known as “Obamacare“. [mc4wp_form id=”6042”]

Subsidies that were part of that programme have now been scrapped.

As the Republican-led government has been whittling away at Obamacare, health insurance options are becoming fewer and pricier.

Al Jazeera’s John Hendren reports from Chicago