{"id":1030134,"date":"2024-03-18T13:25:11","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T13:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1030134"},"modified":"2024-05-23T19:56:16","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T19:56:16","slug":"reminder-maga-republicans-plan-to-kill-the-aca-includes-ripping-away-basic-reproductive-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/reminder-maga-republicans-plan-to-kill-the-aca-includes-ripping-away-basic-reproductive-care\/","title":{"rendered":"REMINDER: MAGA Republicans\u2019 Plan to Kill the ACA Includes Ripping Away Basic Reproductive Care"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Approaching the anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, <\/em>DNC Rapid Response Spokesperson Aida Ross released the following statement: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDonald Trump and his MAGA Republican allies have already made it clear they are hellbent on taking away women\u2019s access to reproductive care \u2014 and they\u2019ll use every available avenue to do it, including killing the Affordable Care Act. Thanks to the ACA, more women than ever have access to birth control and the kinds of basic reproductive care that they\u2019d previously been denied because of preexisting conditions or financial barriers. But Trump and his MAGA minions\u2019 plan to \u2018terminate\u2019 the ACA would endanger women\u2019s health and rip away reproductive freedom as part of their extreme agenda. The fate of Americans\u2019 health care is on the ballot this November, and voters won\u2019t let Donald Trump once again attempt to deny millions of women access to essential care.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For over a decade, the Affordable Care Act has helped millions of women across the country gain access to health care \u2014 including reproductive care. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Planned Parenthood<\/a>: \u201cBy expanding health coverage and access to birth control to millions, Affordable Care Act (ACA) has been a game changer for women. Before the ACA, millions of women were denied coverage because of so-called \u2018pre-existing conditions\u2019 like breast cancer, pregnancy, or domestic abuse; some were forced to pay more for insurance just because they were women; and some were only allowed limited plans that excluded coverage for any health concerns they already had.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaiser Family Foundation<\/a>: \u201cA new KFF review of more than three dozen studies published between April 2021 and June 2023 finds that Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act is associated with beneficial effects on a range of sexual and reproductive health outcomes.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

American Journal of Public Health<\/a>: \u201cThe ACA was associated with expanded insurance coverage and improvements in access to care for women of reproductive age, particularly for those with lower incomes.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s be clear: Ripping away access to affordable care \u2014 including reproductive care \u2014 is <\/strong>extremely unpopular <\/em><\/strong>with the American people.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Center for American Progress<\/a>: \u201cAccording to new estimates from the Center for American Progress, 135 million people under age 65, or about half of nonelderly people, have a preexisting condition<\/strong> that an insurer could use to discriminate against them if they ever sought coverage through the individual market in the absence of ACA protections.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jon Favreau<\/a>: \u201cIf Trump wins, 40 million people could lose their health care, <\/strong>and insurance companies would get to deny coverage to people with pre-existing conditions. If Biden wins, that\u2026won\u2019t happen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NPR\/PBS NewsHour\/Marist Poll<\/a>: \u201cThirteen years after the Affordable Care Act was signed into law, more than eight in ten Americans (83%) either agree or strongly agree that all Americans have a basic right to healthcare coverage.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

19th News<\/a>: \u201cAbortion bans are unpopular. Republicans are passing them anyway.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWith abortion bans becoming increasingly unpopular, Republican-led statehouses are walking a delicate line: Trying to advance bills that would restrict access to the procedure without drawing attention, circumventing normal processes to cram new policies through as legislative sessions come to a close.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Navigator Research<\/a>: \u201cA majority of constituents in battleground districts believe Republicans are too extreme on the issue of abortion<\/strong> and are far more extreme than Democrats on the issue.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Donald Trump has a shameful record of ripping away reproductive care provided by the Affordable Care Act and continues to double down on his plans to get rid of the ACA in a second term. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201cTrump Administration Rolls Back Birth Control Mandate\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vox<\/a>: \u201cIn Trump\u2019s first year in office, federal agencies weakened the ACA\u2019s contraceptive mandate, allowing employers to deny birth control coverage if they had a religious or moral objection.<\/strong> Though the rollback was quickly tied up in the courts, dozens of employers signed separate settlements with the administration allowing them to refuse to cover birth control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMeanwhile, the Trump administration took aim at other federal programs designed to promote reproductive health and access to birth control, including Title X, which funds services like contraceptive counseling and cervical cancer screenings for low-income Americans. The result was that when Covid-19 hit, the country\u2019s safety net was already weakened, with shuttered clinics and reduced hours making it harder to provide the low-cost care that Americans \u2014 many of them facing layoffs and loss of health insurance \u2014 needed more than ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThen, in the midst of the pandemic, the Supreme Court dealt another blow to birth control access: The justices upheld the administration\u2019s rollback of the ACA contraceptive mandate in July, a ruling that could mean the loss of contraceptive coverage for 126,000 American workers.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rolling Stone<\/a>: \u201cInside the MAGA Plan to Attack Birth Control, Surveil Women and Ban the Abortion Pill\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associated Press<\/a>: \u201cTrump remaking federal policy on women\u2019s reproductive health\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cStep by methodical step, the Trump administration is remaking government policy on reproductive health \u2014 moving to limit access to birth control and abortion and bolstering abstinence-only sex education.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just like Trump, MAGA Mike Johnson is an anti-abortion extremist who has a yearslong record of trying to deny women access to essential health care \u2014 including those provided by the Affordable Care Act. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

HuffPost<\/a>: \u201cThe same goes for the Affordable Care Act, which is quite a change from the many years Republicans talked endlessly about repealing it. They finally got their chance in 2017, while Donald Trump was president and Johnson, then new to Congress, voted yes. <\/strong>The effort famously failed, but not before provoking a massive political backlash that helped Democrats retake control of the House \u2015 and, two years later, the presidency and Senate too.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut that doesn\u2019t mean Republicans have made their peace with the 2010 health care law, or that they\u2019ve given up on their ideas for replacing it with conservative alternatives. And you\u2019ll find no better proof than in a 2019 proposal from the Republican Study Committee, which at the time Johnson was leading.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe word \u2018repeal\u2019 appears only a few times, always in a narrow context. But the pieces of repeal legislation are all there.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mike Johnson<\/a>: \u201c\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8BREAKING: Late yesterday, the La. Department of Health informed abortion facilities in our state that the right to life has now been RESTORED!  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perform an abortion and get imprisoned at hard labor for 1-10 yrs & fined $10K-$100K.\u201d<\/strong>
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Jezebel<\/a>: \u201c[Johnson] expressed hope that Roe v. Wade would someday be overturned, railed against people supposedly \u2018using abortion as birth control\u2019 and appeared to blame school shootings on abortion: <\/strong>\u2018When you break up the nuclear family, when you tell a generation of people that life has no value, no meaning, that it\u2019s expendable, then you do wind up with school shooters.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And more of Trump\u2019s MAGA Minions on the Hill are willing to revive his attempts to repeal the ACA. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Axios<\/a>: \u201cA fresh repeal effort could be just as perilous, but Trump’s continued fixation with the law could put pressure on Republican lawmakers to make another run at it if the GOP gains full control of Washington next year. \u2026 Two top Senate Republicans signaled they could be open to a revived effort.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018I think Obamacare has been one of the biggest deceptions on the American people,\u2019 said Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas). \u2018I mean just look at your health care premiums.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSen. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), who’s in line to run the Finance Committee if the GOP retakes the Senate, said he’s open to plans that were similar to the 2017 repeal and replace bills.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Approaching the anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, DNC Rapid Response Spokesperson Aida Ross released the following statement:  \u201cDonald Trump and his MAGA Republican allies have already made it clear they are hellbent on taking away women\u2019s access to reproductive care \u2014 and they\u2019ll use every available avenue to do it, including killing the Affordable […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nREMINDER: MAGA Republicans\u2019 Plan to Kill the ACA Includes Ripping Away Basic Reproductive Care - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/reminder-maga-republicans-plan-to-kill-the-aca-includes-ripping-away-basic-reproductive-care\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-03-18T13:25:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-23T19:56:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?w=1024\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"6 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/reminder-maga-republicans-plan-to-kill-the-aca-includes-ripping-away-basic-reproductive-care\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/reminder-maga-republicans-plan-to-kill-the-aca-includes-ripping-away-basic-reproductive-care\/\",\"name\":\"REMINDER: MAGA Republicans\u2019 Plan to Kill the ACA Includes Ripping Away Basic Reproductive Care - 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