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The intention of the President-elect Trump and the Republican majority is to dismantle Obamacare. If successful, approximately 30 millions of Americans would lose health insurance and would no longer be able to access at medical care. Also Republicans would cut federal funding to hospitals, with the risk to close several small hospitals in rural counties. Finally, it seems that along with spending cuts in the Republican proposal there are a series of medicines price increases. Of the 30 million of people who risk to lose the health insurance, approximately the 80% come from the working class and many of those voted for Trump because he had promised that there would be no cuts to health care. According to the Sen. Bernie Sanders, Trump has two options: choose the Republican proposal and admit that he lied during the election campaign, or save Obamacare and keep the promises made during the campaign.

Vice President-elect Mike Pence said that the dismantling of Obamacare will be the first step of the Trump’s administration. The President-elect on Twitter made fun of the Democratic whip in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, launching the proposal of a bipartisan agreement to scrap the Obamacare. Surely the new Republican administration has no intention to ensure the 20 millions of health insurance covered by the Obamacare but not even seems determined to eliminate them all. At least for now, the idea seems to be to gradually move from Obamacare to a new legislation, more selective, field of health insurance, while the Democrats hope to gain time thanks to an investigation against the Secretary-appointed to  Health, the surgeon Tom Price, who failed to declare their stock options of various companies related to the world of health for a value close to $ 300,000.

One of the topics on which Trump has attacked more often Hillary Cliton during the election campaign was her inability, when she was Secretary of State, to guarantee the security of American diplomats, referring in particular to the attack to the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya . Despite last year Congress has allocated nearly $ 4 billion fund for the security of diplomatic missions, many experts complain about a system not yet efficient, especially in high risk areas, the safety of personnel and diplomatic missions will be one of many challenges that Trump’s administration will have to face. The interested parties do not seem to see willingly the strategy of the President-elect, in fact, many have serious doubts about the figure of Rex Tillerson, who as Secretary of State would be responsible for ensuring even the security of diplomatic offices and diplomatic personnel.