Surgeon general: Trump administration is not ‘against coverage’

Published November 15, 2017 9:19pm ET



Surgeon General Jerome Adams on Wednesday defended the Trump administration against Democratic attacks about Obamacare, saying that it was not opposed to healthcare coverage.

“I would be remiss if I did not … check the insinuation from several folks that the current administration is against coverage for folks,” Adams said in response to several Democrats blasting the Trump administration for supporting Obamacare repeal. “I do agree that there is a direct link between the health of a community and the number of people who are insured. The administration is not against being insured. We have a different mindset about how we can achieve that.”

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