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In another in the long series, "Trump regrets," meet some voters who didn't think he was really going to take away their health care.
Tom Westerman voted for Donald Trump in last year's election but says he might not do so again after the president cut off billions of dollars in Obamacare subsidies to health insurance companies.
"It really upset me," said Westerman, 63, a self-described "middle-class guy" with an annual household income of about $60,000 in the western Pennsylvania city of Arnold. […]
"It seems like he is trying to hurt the middle class," said Westerman, who is retired from a manufacturing company in Pennsylvania, a state that Trump won by little more than 44,000 votes over Democrat Hillary Clinton. It was the first time a Republican candidate had won Pennsylvania since 1988.
Westerman already pays $520 a month in healthcare premiums and about $700 a month for his 21-year-old daughter's college tuition. "He says he's going to make it better for everyone. How does a (premium) increase make it better?" […]
Trump voter Stephen Lewis, 62, lost his job as a veterinarian in Wisconsin and bought a health insurance plan under Obamacare. Lewis still supports Trump although he said he fears that his premiums, now $309 a month, could rise further with the subsidy cut, making it harder for him to meet other expenses, including $611 in monthly mortgage payments.
"It is a concern obviously," Lewis said.
But, hey, as long as those people don't get insurance. … What Lewis and Westerman are belatedly finding out is that as far as Trump and his fellow Republicans are concerned, they're those people, too. Maybe they out to think about calling their Republican senators to chat about it.