Beware: Trump administration could undercut health care - Chicago Sun Times
Proposals to weaken the Affordable Care Act, cut back on Medicaid and undermine Medicare have been floating around Washington as... Donald Trump prepares to take office.
Republicans’ Extreme Budget Guts Medicare and Takes Health Care Away from Millions of Americans - House Committee on the Budget
The Republican Study Committee (RSC), which represents 80 percent of House Republicans and 100 percent of their leadership, revealed their dismal vision for American families.
Their extreme 2025 budget proposal ends Medicare as we know it by replacing it with inadequate vouchers, destroys the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and guts Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
Their budget also repeals the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which empowered Medicare to negotiate lower drug prices and capped seniors’ out-of-pocket prescription drug costs, including the $35 price cap per month for insulin.
Republican Health Coverage Proposals Would Increase Number of Uninsured, Raise People’s Costs - An Overview of the Project 2025, Republican Study Committee, and House Budget Committee Plans - CBPP.org
The Medicaid and marketplace proposals from the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 blueprint, the Republican Study Committee’s (RSC) fiscal year 2025 budget,and the Republican House Budget Committee’s (HBC) fiscal year 2025 budget resolution would undermine Affordable Care Act (ACA) coverage protections, make health coverage more costly and less comprehensive, shift more costs to states, and increase the number of uninsured people in the U.S.
These proposals would result in a future in which millions more people go without coverage, pay higher premiums if they have pre-existing conditions, or end up with skimpy health plans that don’t cover benefits they need.
an older article (October 2024)
Republicans are serious about cutting people’s health care - Vox
Donald Trump’s election could allow the GOP to gut Medicaid and protections for preexisting conditions.
Republicans [were] trying to have it both ways on health care during the 2024 campaign. They boast that they want to deregulate insurance and massively cut government spending, yet they also claim that they would never do anything to endanger people’s coverage.
That two-step [kept] getting them into trouble. House Speaker Mike Johnson was recently caught on a tape promising to take “a blow torch to the regulatory state.” Donald Trump, Johnson said, would want to “go big” in his second term because he can’t run for a third one, the speaker told a group of Republican voters in Pennsylvania. And health care, Johnson said, would be “a big part” of the GOP’s agenda.
One attendee directly asked Johnson: No Obamacare? “No Obamacare,” Johnson said.
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