A Record Breaking Number of Americans Signed up for Health Coverage Through the Marketplace Last Autumn, With 4 in 5 Accessing Care For $10 Or Less
Washington, D.C. — Beginning today, millions of Americans will visit HealthCare.gov to sign up for low-cost health coverage for the start of the 2025 open enrollment for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplaces. Last year’s open enrollment period saw more than a 31 percent increase in signups, resulting in a record-breaking 21.4 million people gaining health care thanks to the ACA. This spike in coverage is largely thanks to new savings under the Biden-Harris administration as well as their investment in outreach and education to help people enroll, with a particular focus on communities that are so often left behind: people in rural areas, racial and ethnic minorities, and LGBTQ+ people.
The Biden-Harris administration and Democrats in Congress have made incredible progress to ensure millions more Americans have the health care they deserve, but Republicans want to roll back this progress and hike costs for people nationwide. Just this week, House Speaker Mike Johnson openly confirmed that the health care agenda if Donald Trump is elected includes “no Obamacare.” Donald Trump’s Republican Party wants to “take a blowtorch” to the Affordable Care Act, destroying protections for more than 100 million Americans with pre-existing conditions, ripping coverage away from more than 45 million Americans, and raising costs across the board for everyday Americans.
While in office, Trump attempted to repeal the ACA and was just one vote short in 2017. Under his administration, Trump did everything in his power to sabotage the ACA, resulting in millions of Americans losing their health insurance coverage, drug prices skyrocketed, and Republicans gave billions in tax breaks to drug and insurance companies and their CEOs.
In response, Protect Our Care Executive Director Brad Woodhouse issued the following statement:
“If Donald Trump and his allies get their way, this year could be the end of health care as we know it. With the uncertainty of the election looming, we do know one thing; Trump will stop at nothing to destroy the Affordable Care Act, the Inflation Reduction Act, and other critical protections that tens of millions of American people rely on. Trump’s first goal as president was to repeal the ACA. When he failed, he spent his entire presidency sabotaging it until the bitter end, now he’s getting ready to do it all over again.
“Last year’s record numbers show that Americans want and need the affordable, quality health care made possible through the ACA. Under Democratic leadership, the nation’s uninsured rate is at the lowest it has ever been in history. Let’s continue that trend until every American has access to the high-quality, low-cost health care they need to thrive.”