For Latino voters, health care is a top issue as Obamacare gains reverse under Trump

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A key voting demographic, a key target of Trump's scheme to take people's health care away. How will it play out at the polls?

For Latino voters, health care is a top issue as Obamacare gains reverse under Trump

Latinos gained the most under the Affordable Care Act after it was enacted in 2010, with about 4 million adults and 600,000 children obtaining health care coverage by 2016.

As more people lose health insurance, the cost and the availability of coverage are top-tier issues for Hispanics this election cycle. Latinos rank it even ahead of jobs and the economy and place more importance on it than they did about this time in 2016.

But the pandemic's disproportionate effect on Latinos has forced a reckoning of the gaps in health care coverage, especially in states like Texas with a large Hispanic population.

A recent poll of Latinos for UnidosUS showed that almost 6 in 10 (59 percent) respondents were very concerned and another 39 percent were somewhat concerned that the Supreme Court would undo the Affordable Care Act.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is leading a lawsuit that could end the Affordable Care Act. The challengers’ chances of prevailing are believed to be improved following the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Trump’s nomination of Amy Coney Barrett, a conservative, to fill her seat. Barrett has been critical in the past of the health care law.