{"id":1030244,"date":"2024-03-21T14:21:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T14:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1030244"},"modified":"2024-05-10T19:38:29","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T19:38:29","slug":"reminder-trump-wants-to-take-away-health-coverage-from-millions-of-americans-under-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/reminder-trump-wants-to-take-away-health-coverage-from-millions-of-americans-under-26\/","title":{"rendered":"REMINDER: Trump Wants To Take Away Health Coverage From Millions of Americans Under 26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Approaching the anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, <\/em>DNC spokesperson Aida Ross released the following statement: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf Donald Trump gets his way and repeals the Affordable Care Act, nearly 5 million Americans under the age of 26 could lose their health insurance. Trump\u2019s push to \u2018terminate\u2019 the ACA is both extreme and unpopular: He wants to take away coverage from millions of young adults while allowing insurers to discriminate against more than 100 million Americans with preexisting conditions. As Trump urges his fellow MAGA Republicans to \u2018never give up\u2019 their cruel efforts to rip away affordable health coverage from hardworking Americans, young voters are ready to stand up for their health care \u2013 and against Trump \u2013 at the ballot box in November.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Donald Trump\u2019s push to repeal the Affordable Care Act could leave millions of Americans under the age of 26 without health insurance coverage.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Urban Institute<\/a>: If the ACA is repealed, nearly 5 million young Americans could lose coverage and become uninsured.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

USA Today<\/a>: \u201c[Trump\u2019s] comments have raised concerns among young voters who are worried about the popular Obamacare provision that guarantees young adults receive health insurance coverage under their parents\u2019 plans until age 26.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ASPE<\/a>: \u201c2.5 Million Young Adults Gain Health Insurance Due to the Affordable Care Act\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFrom September 2010 to June 2011, the percentage of adults 19 to 25 with insurance coverage increased from 64% to 73%, which translates into 2.5 million additional young adults with coverage.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fierce Health Care<\/a>: \u201cThe uninsured rate for Americans ages 19-25 declined from 30% to 16% between 2011 and 2018.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Americans overwhelmingly support the ACA provision allowing young adults to stay on their parents\u2019 insurance until age 26.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

KFF polling<\/a>: 85% of Americans have a favorable opinion of the ACA provision allowing young adults to stay on their parents\u2019 insurance until age 26.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

KFF polling<\/a>: 78% of Americans say it\u2019s somewhat or very important to maintain the ACA provision<\/strong> allowing young adults to stay on their parents\u2019 insurance until age 26.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Atlantic<\/a>: \u201cMore than three-fifths of Americans expressed favorable views, while only slightly more than one-third viewed it negatively. Support for individual provisions in the law, such as \u2026 the requirement that insurers allow kids to stay on their parents\u2019 plans through age 26, runs even higher in polls.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump is still hellbent on repealing the ACA and ripping away access to affordable care from millions of Americans. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daily Beast<\/a>: \u201cTrump Revives Plan to Dismantle Obamacare if Elected in 2024\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mediaite<\/a>: \u201c\u2018OBAMACARE SUCKS!!!\u2019 Trump Rants About New Plan \u2014 Years After He Promised It Was \u2018Two Weeks\u2019 Away\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

HuffPost<\/a>: \u201cDonald Trump says he is still interested in repealing the Affordable Care Act, which means health care for tens of millions of people would be in jeopardy if he becomes president again next year. Trump said Saturday on his website Truth Social that he was \u2018looking at alternatives\u2019 to the 2010 health care law, also known as \u2018Obamacare,\u2019 which has reduced the number of Americans without health insurance to historic lows and established basic guarantees of coverage for all Americans regardless of pre-existing conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump<\/a>: \u201cThe cost of Obamacare is out of control, plus, it\u2019s not good Healthcare. I\u2019m seriously looking at alternatives. We had a couple of Republican Senators who campaigned for 6 years against it, and then raised their hands not to terminate it. It was a low point for the Republican Party, but we should never give up!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump<\/a>: \u201cObamacare is a disaster. And I said, \u2018We’re gonna do something about it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When he was in office, Trump came up just one vote short in Congress from achieving his goal of repealing the Affordable Care Act.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hill<\/a>: \u201cOn the campaign trail, Trump has doubled down on his promise to repeal the ACA, a feat he fell one vote short of in 2017.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump<\/a>: \u201cI will get health care. I’m one vote short of health care. I’ll get health care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reuters<\/a>: \u201cThe most previous attempt to repeal Obamacare fell one vote short in July, in a humiliating setback for Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump and MAGA Republicans\u2019 plan to rip away Americans\u2019 health care is overwhelmingly unpopular among voters. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politico<\/a>: \u201cObamacare is even more popular than the last time Trump tried to kill it\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRoughly three-in-five Americans like the 2010 health care law, even more than when Trump and Republicans in Congress came to the brink of wiping it out. And some of the Affordable Care Act\u2019s better-known provisions \u2014 like protections for preexisting health conditions \u2014 engender even greater support.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c[Trump] did more than pick at an electoral scab that party strategists hoped had healed by now. He threatened to bring back to life a potent electoral issue that contributed significantly to the GOP\u2019s wipeout in the 2018 midterms and on which public opinion has only moved away from Republicans since.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cBut what\u2019s clear is that an effort to \u2018terminate\u2019 Obamacare is not something Americans are pining for. Not only were the GOP\u2019s efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare during Trump\u2019s term historically unpopular, but the law also appears to have gotten more popular since then.<\/strong> \u2026 And when politicians talk of ending health insurance for tens of millions of Americans, dropping coverage of preexisting conditions and cutting Obamacare\u2019s Medicaid funding, things get even dicier.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN<\/a>: \u201cObamacare has gotten popular. Trump doesn\u2019t care\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Axios<\/a>: \u201cA new KFF poll underscores why former President Trump reigniting conversation about repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act was probably a bad idea politically<\/strong> \u2026 Only 32% of Republican respondents said they think the future of the ACA is a very important issue for 2024 presidential candidates to talk about.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

KFF Poll<\/a>: 64% believe it is \u201cvery important\u201d insurance companies continue to be prohibited from charging sick people more \u2013 including 55% of Republicans.<\/strong><\/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

Bryan Bennett<\/a>: \u201cPer our October @NavigatorSurvey research, repealing the ACA (and January 6) remain the top concerns about Trump\u2019s first term as president\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hill<\/a>: \u201cMajority of Americans don\u2019t want preexisting condition protections eliminated: poll\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEven among Republicans, 66 percent of respondents said they did not want to see the preexisting condition protections overturned. Overall, the poll showed 79 percent of respondents do not want the court to cancel coverage protections for Americans with preexisting conditions.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

KFF Poll<\/a>: \u201cMajorities of Democrats, Republicans, and independents say it is ‘very important’ to continue each of [the Affordable Care Act\u2019s] protections for people with pre-existing conditions.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Approaching the anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, DNC spokesperson Aida Ross released the following statement:  \u201cIf Donald Trump gets his way and repeals the Affordable Care Act, nearly 5 million Americans under the age of 26 could lose their health insurance. 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