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Coal country in kentucky, talking to people who were attracted to donald trump and his message of bringing back coal jobs. now they're kind of struggling with, well, what will this mean if obamacare is repealed from our health care coverage. i want to play a little sound from some of his reporting. >> president-elect trump promised people he would restore mining jobs. i don't think he thought about what the affordable care act might mean to miners applying for black lung benefits. >> when they eliminate obamacare, they may eliminate all the black lung program. >> if he don't come across like h...

Coal miner for 35 years. officially supported hillary clinton. but -- >> i voted for trump. may be a mistake but i heard him say he would bring coal back. >> reporter: a mistake maybe because he now suffers from black lung disease. >> from there to here, you can see a difference in my breathing that close. >> reporter: he vote for trump to bring jobs back but now fears trump's promise to kill obama care will also end his black lung benefits. >> when they eliminate the obama care, they may just eliminate all of the black lung program. it may all be gone. don't matter how many years you got. >> ...

All the black lung program. it may all be gone. don't matter how many years you got. >> reporter: three sentences in the affordable care act made it easier for victims of black lung to get monthly federal benefits if they worked 15 years or more in the mines. and if they died, the benefits automatically extended to their widows. >> i will be drawing $643.42. >> once a month? >> once a month. >> reporter: patty just got her first payment. her husband crawford, after 32 years in the mines, died in 2007. >> to say it, somebody you live with 45 years, go from a vibrant man to a child is very hard....

Some trump voters are also worried about what the man they elected president will do to their health care. debbie mills who voted for trump in kentucky gets her health insurance through the affordable care act, and so does her husband. she told "the washington post" i don't know what we'll do if it does go away. i guess i thought that, you know, trump would not do this, that they would not do this, would not take the insurance away, knowing that it's affecting so many people's lives. i mean what are you to do, then, if you cannot purchase, cannot pay for the insurance? another voter in kentuck...

Debbie mills who voted for trump in kentucky gets her health insurance through the affordable care act, and so does her husband. she told "the washington post" i don't know what we'll do if it does go away. i guess i thought that, you know, trump would not do this, that they would not do this, would not take the insurance away, knowing that it's affecting so many people's lives. i mean what are you to do, then, if you cannot purchase, cannot pay for the insurance? another voter in kentucky who worked in the coal mines for 35 years said that repeal could mean the end of a provision making it ea...