{"id":1030274,"date":"2024-03-22T13:21:21","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T13:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1030274"},"modified":"2024-05-23T19:56:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T19:56:15","slug":"reminder-donald-trump-wants-to-repeal-the-affordable-care-act-and-eliminate-essential-health-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/reminder-donald-trump-wants-to-repeal-the-affordable-care-act-and-eliminate-essential-health-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"REMINDER: Donald Trump Wants To Repeal the Affordable Care Act and Eliminate Essential Health Benefits"},"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

\u201cMillions of hardworking Americans rely on essential health benefits provided by the Affordable Care Act, but Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans could not care less. Access to affordable prescription drugs, maternity and newborn care, mental health care, emergency services, and more are all on the chopping block for millions of Americans if Trump and the GOP have their way. The American people won\u2019t let them get a chance \u2013 voters will reject Trump\u2019s extreme MAGA health care agenda this November just like they did four years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Donald Trump\u2019s efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act could eliminate access to essential health benefits such as affordable prescription drugs, maternity and newborn care, mental health care, and emergency services.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vox<\/a>: \u201cTrump\u2019s action could lead to many association health plans being exempted from core Obamacare requirements like the coverage of certain essential health benefits.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEssential health benefits, requiring that insurers cover everything from hospital care to prescription drugs to maternity care, are central to the ACA\u2019s insurance protections: They prevent plans from crafting their coverage to attract mostly young and healthy customers at the expense of older and sicker people.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201c[Trump\u2019s health plans] may not have to provide certain \u2018essential health benefits\u2019 like mental health care, emergency services, maternity and newborn care, and prescription drugs.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politico<\/a>: \u201cShort-term plans do not have to meet the same requirements as a health insurance plan sold on the Obamacare insurance exchanges. These requirements can include coverage of pre-existing conditions and certain essential health benefits such as prescription drugs.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

USA Today Opinion<\/a>: \u201c[Repealing the ACA] would allow insurers to skip coverage of essential services, including maternity care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump is still pushing to repeal the ACA and rip 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.<\/strong> 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<\/strong><\/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:  \u201cMillions of hardworking Americans rely on essential health benefits provided by the Affordable Care Act, but Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans could not care less. 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