Republicans lastly revealed their well being care plan: repeal the Reasonably priced Care Act.
A brand new video has surfaced of Speaker of the Home Mike Johnson saying that Donald Trump, if elected, will kill the Reasonably priced Care Act within the first 100 days, probably throwing 22 million People off their insurance coverage.
“Health care reform’s going to be a big part of the agenda. When I say we’re going to have a very aggressive first 100 days agenda, we got a lot of things still on the table,” Johnson mentioned throughout a marketing campaign occasion in Pennsylvania on Monday, whereas a life-sized Trump cardboard cutout loomed behind him. The video was first obtained by NBC Information.
“No Obamacare,” Johnson continued. “The ACA is so deeply ingrained, we need massive reform to make this work, and we got a lot of ideas on how to do that.”
On the marketing campaign cease, Johnson waxed poetic in regards to the virtues of the “free market” and “taking bureaucrats out of the health care equation”—until, in fact, it means proscribing girls’s reproductive decisions. They need their bureaucratic handprints throughout that.
Nevertheless, the ACA stays overwhelmingly well-liked, with an April survey from KFF discovering that 62% of People have a positive view of the legislation.
The Trump marketing campaign has distanced itself from giving any particular coverage on well being care, regardless of that it’s a prime subject for American voters. Within the Sept. 10 presidential debate, Trump mentioned he had solely “concepts of a plan” for well being care reform. And when requested about his plan for the ACA, which he tried and did not repeal in his first time period, he stumbled via a nonanswer.
“I had a choice to make when I was president, do I save it and make it as good as it can be? Never going to be great. Or do I let it rot? And I felt I had an obligation, even though politically it would have been good to just let it rot and let it go away,” Trump mentioned.
Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz tried to warn us that is the place MAGA Republicans would take us if Trump ever bought to be within the White Home once more.
“When Donald Trump said, ‘I’ve got a concept of a plan,’ it cracked me up as a fourth grade teacher because my kids would have never given me that,” Walz mentioned throughout his debate with Trump working mate JD Vance.
“So what they’re going to do is let insurance companies pick who they insure,” Walz continued. “Because guess what happens? You pay your premium. It’s not much. They figure they’re not going to have to pay out to you. But those of you a little older, gray, you know, got cancer? You’re going to get kicked out of it. That’s why the system didn’t work. Kamala Harris will protect and enhance the ACA.”
Johnson’s vow to kill the ACA comes as anti-vaccine Trump ally Robert F. Kennedy Jr. lately mentioned Trump has “promised” him “control of the public health agencies,” happening to checklist the Division of Well being and Human Providers, the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention, Nationwide Institutes of Well being, and others.
You recognize, the companies that regulate the security of meals, conduct well being analysis, and defend the general public from the unfold of viruses corresponding to, ahem, the COVID-19 pandemic.
Republicans proceed to unveil themselves within the sneakiest of the way. Effectively, People have the receipts.
