{"id":1050895,"date":"2025-01-21T09:51:26","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T14:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1050895"},"modified":"2025-01-21T09:51:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T14:51:27","slug":"trumps-plans-to-screw-over-america-ripping-away-access-to-lifesaving-health-care-skyrocketing-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trumps-plans-to-screw-over-america-ripping-away-access-to-lifesaving-health-care-skyrocketing-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Plans to Screw Over America: Ripping Away Access to Lifesaving Health Care, Skyrocketing Costs\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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As Donald Trump enters his first week in office after enriching<\/a> himself on the backs of his supporters by making billions<\/a> through a new cryptocurrency grift, he\u2019s made his plans clear from the start: he will screw over Americans at every turn in order to benefit himself and his billionaire friends. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Donald Trump\u2019s first order of business? Screwing over Americans with an anti-health care agenda, immediately rescinding President Biden\u2019s EO on lowering prescription drug prices, putting the Affordable Care Act on the chopping block, cutting essential programs like Medicare and Medicaid, and undermining women\u2019s reproductive rights. DNC Senior Spokesperson Hannah Muldavin released the following statement: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe first time he was in office, Donald Trump was one vote away from ripping away the Affordable Care Act, and now that more Americans than ever before have coverage under the ACA, he\u2019s back to put it on the chopping block again. Trump\u2019s \u2018concepts\u2019 of a health care plan are making prescription drugs more expensive by immediately rescinding President Biden\u2019s \u2018Lowering Prescription Drug Costs for Americans\u2019 executive order, gutting Medicare and Medicaid, screwing over millions of people with preexisting conditions, and doubling down on further undermining reproductive rights after getting Roe v. Wade<\/em> overturned. Democrats won\u2019t stand by as Trump tries to scam America out of our health care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NEW: Only hours after he was sworn in, Trump immediately rescinded President Biden\u2019s executive order that called for lowering prescription drug costs for people on Medicare or Medicaid. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

KFF Health News<\/a>: \u201cHours Into Presidency, Trump Rescinds Attempts To Lower Prescription Costs, Rolls Back Some ACA Rules\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTrump also halted some prescription cost-saving efforts for people on Medicare and Medicaid, which might stall momentum for Medicare drug pricing negotiations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump has repeatedly promised to \u201cterminate\u201d the Affordable Care Act, which could rip away access to lifesaving care from 40 million hardworking Americans who couldn\u2019t otherwise afford it. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NBC News<\/a>: \u201cMillions at risk of losing health insurance after Trump’s victory\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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In his first term, Trump immediately tried to get rid of the ACA in his first term \u2014 and was only one vote short in Congress from repealing it. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NPR<\/a>: \u201cThe very day President Trump was sworn in \u2014 Jan. 20, 2017 \u2014 he signed an executive order instructing administration officials \u2018to waive, defer, grant exemptions from, or delay\u2019 implementing parts of the Affordable Care Act,<\/strong> while Congress got ready to repeal and replace President Obama’s signature health law.\u201d<\/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<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

In his first term, Trump hand-picked Supreme Court justices who killed <\/strong>Roe v. Wade <\/em><\/strong>\u2014 and backed a national abortion ban that he tried to push through Congress. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NBC News<\/a>: \u201cTrump: ‘I was able to kill Roe v. Wade\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump in 2023<\/a>: \u201cGetting rid of Roe v. Wade was an incredible thing <\/strong>for pro-life because it gave pro-life something to negotiate with. Pro-life had absolutely nothing, being stuck in Roe v. Wade, to negotiate with. \u2026 And look, everybody that was president wanted to get rid and tried to get rid of Roe v. Wade \u2026 For fifty years, this has been going on. I was able to do it, and I was very honored to do it.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cWith Trump\u2019s backing, House approves ban on abortion<\/strong> after 20 weeks of pregnancy\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hill<\/a>: \u201cPresident Trump on Friday called on the Senate to pass a bill banning abortions after 20 weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yahoo! Life<\/a>: \u201cPresident Trump is pushing for a 20-week abortion ban\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump has promised to carry out an extreme, anti-choice agenda that would further rip away women\u2019s access to lifesaving reproductive care \u2014 from draconian abortion bans, surveilling pregnancies, and banning medication abortion. <\/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<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interviewer<\/a>: \u201cAre you comfortable if states decide to punish women who access abortions after the procedure is banned?\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Trump: \u201cAgain, that\u2019s going to be\u2014I don’t have to be comfortable or uncomfortable. The states are going to make that decision.<\/strong> The states are going to have to be comfortable or uncomfortable, not me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Interviewer: \u201cProsecuting women for getting abortions after the ban. But are you comfortable with it?\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump: \u201cThe states are going to say. It\u2019s irrelevant whether I\u2019m comfortable or not. It’s totally irrelevant, because the states are going to make those decisions.<\/strong>\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201cTrump Privately Expresses Support for a 16-Week Abortion Ban\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sahil Kapur<\/a>: \u201cThe Supreme Court justices who overturned Roe v. Wade didn’t just send the issue back to \u2018the states.\u2019 They also sent it back to Congress, which can now restrict or ban abortion nationwide<\/strong>. The president has the power to sign or veto any such bills.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump\u2019s second term will be a disaster for those who rely on Medicare or Medicaid for access to health care \u2014 his MAGA agenda will gut these critical programs for millions of Americans. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

KFF Health News<\/a>: \u201cTrump\u2019s Return Puts Medicaid on the Chopping Block\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cUnder President Joe Biden, enrollment in Medicaid hit a record high and the uninsured rate reached a record low.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDonald Trump\u2019s return to the White House \u2014 along with a GOP-controlled Senate and House of Representatives \u2014 is expected to change that.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRepublicans in Washington say they plan to use funding cuts and regulatory changes to dramatically shrink Medicaid, the nearly $900-billion-a-year government health insurance program that, along with the related Children\u2019s Health Insurance Program, serves about 79 million mostly low-income or disabled Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his first term, Trump called for gutting Medicare and Medicaid in <\/strong>every single one<\/em><\/strong> of his budget proposals \u2014 and we can expect more of the same in his second term. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cEach of his White House budget proposals included cuts to Social Security and Medicare programs.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times, 2017<\/a>: \u201cTrump\u2019s Budget Cuts Deeply Into Medicaid and Anti-Poverty Efforts\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOver the next decade, it calls for slashing more than $800 billion from Medicaid, <\/strong>the federal health program for the poor, while slicing $192 billion from nutritional assistance and $272 billion over all from welfare programs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 2018<\/a>: \u201cLess than two months after signing massive tax cuts that largely benefit those at the top of the economic ladder, President Trump has put forward a 2019 budget that cuts basic assistance that millions of families struggling to get by need to help pay the rent, put food on the table, and get health care.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe budget doubles down in both areas.  It cuts Medicaid and subsidies for private coverage in the marketplace by $763 billion over the next decade, with cuts reaching $172 billion annually by 2028.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vox, 2019<\/a>: \u201cTrump said he wouldn\u2019t cut Medicaid, Social Security, and Medicare. His 2020 budget cuts all 3.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 2020<\/a>: \u201cTrump\u2019s 2021 Budget Would Cut $1.6 Trillion From Low-Income Programs\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLow-income programs face $1.2 trillion, or 57 percent, of the budget\u2019s proposed $2.2 trillion in ten-year cuts to mandatory programs, despite making up only a quarter of all federal spending on mandatory programs. Medicaid and related programs and SNAP face particularly deep cuts.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As Donald Trump enters his first week in office after enriching himself on the backs of his supporters by making billions through a new cryptocurrency grift, he\u2019s made his plans clear from the start: he will screw over Americans at every turn in order to benefit himself and his billionaire friends.  Donald Trump\u2019s first order […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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-1050895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nTrump\u2019s Plans to Screw Over America: Ripping Away Access to Lifesaving Health Care, Skyrocketing Costs\u00a0 - 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\/trumps-plans-to-screw-over-america-ripping-away-access-to-lifesaving-health-care-skyrocketing-costs\/\" \/>\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=\"2025-01-21T14:51:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-01-21T14:51:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?w=1024\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Adrianna Tomasello\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Adrianna Tomasello\" \/>\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\/trumps-plans-to-screw-over-america-ripping-away-access-to-lifesaving-health-care-skyrocketing-costs\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trumps-plans-to-screw-over-america-ripping-away-access-to-lifesaving-health-care-skyrocketing-costs\/\",\"name\":\"Trump\u2019s Plans to Screw Over America: Ripping Away Access to Lifesaving Health Care, Skyrocketing Costs\u00a0 - 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