The MAGA Agenda Will Gut Health Care and Rip Away Protections for Pre-Existing Conditions
Washington, D.C. – Over the weekend, Vice Presidential candidate JD Vance told yet another lie about Donald Trump’s health care record, claiming that he “chose to build upon” the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and made it better “so that Americans didn’t lose a lot of health care” while in office. This follows Trump insisting during the debate that he “saved” the ACA – an audacious and provable lie.
In reality, Trump was just one vote short of total ACA repeal in 2017, and he did everything in his power to sabotage the law. Under his administration, millions of Americans lost their health insurance coverage, drug prices skyrocketed, and Republicans gave billions in tax breaks to drug and insurance companies and their CEOs.
The truth is that Donald Trump and his allies do have a plan – repeal and sabotage the ACA and Inflation Reduction Act, take away protections for pre-existing conditions, slash Medicaid and Medicare funding, raise prescription drug and premium costs, and strip away health care from millions of Americans.
In response, Protect Our Care Executive Director Brad Woodhouse issued the following statement:
“Not only has Donald Trump continued to lie about his record on health care, but now his VP pick is spewing the same lies to the American people. Trump’s first goal as president was to repeal the ACA, and even when he failed, he spent his entire presidency sabotaging it until the bitter end. As a result, millions of Americans lost their health care coverage and access to the critical care they needed to stay healthy. Now Trump is running away from his record with more and more brazen lies because he knows these proposals are deeply unpopular with the American people. Even if he doesn’t succeed at fully repealing the ACA, Trump will stop at nothing to gut it and other critical protections that the American people rely on, sending us back to the days when insurance companies were in charge.”