The Report Highlights Four Main Concepts of The Trump Plan: Rip Away Health Insurance, Raise Costs of Prescription Drugs, Cut Medicare and Medicaid, and Ban Abortion Nationwide.
Over the weekend, the Harris-Walz campaign released a report on Donald Trump and JD Vance’s “concept” of a health care plan and how, if elected, Trump and Vance will rip away health care for millions and raise costs on the rest. The report states, “They have a concept of a plan, and their concept is this: You’re on your own.”
Recently, Vance admitted that Trump’s plan would turn back the clocks by putting people in high-risk pools – meaning he wants to give insurance companies the power to charge people with pre-existing conditions more for coverage. No matter how many times Trump and Vance claim they will make the Affordable Care Act “better,” their agenda speaks for itself. Under Trump’s plan, we would return to the days when people with conditions like asthma, cancer, and diabetes could be left uninsurable and unable to access lifesaving care. Insurance companies would be put back in charge and have the power to do whatever they want such as charge people more for insurance or deny coverage altogether.
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HuffPost: Harris Campaign Releases Report On What Donald Trump Could Do To Obamacare. “The point of Monday’s paper from the Harris campaign is to remind people that Trump tried to repeal before ― and could try it again ― threatening health care access for the tens of millions who now depend on the Affordable Care Act… In addition to tallying up the number of people who could lose insurance, the report spotlights the number of people with preexisting conditions who could lose the protection of the Affordable Care Act’s insurance rules.” [Huffpost, 9/30/24]
The Hill: Harris Blasts Trump’s ‘Concepts Of A Plan’ For Health Care In Run-Up To VP Debate. “During the presidential debate between Vice President Harris and former President Trump, moderators pushed Trump on his health care plans and he responded that he ‘had concepts of a plan.’ ‘His plan adds up to this: eliminating health insurance and raising costs for tens of millions of Americans, including those with preexisting conditions, seniors, small business owners, working families, pregnant women, and kids,’ the report adds.” [The Hill, 9/30/24]
The Grio: Harris-Walz Campaign Trolls Trump And Vance, Warns Black Voters On Threats To Health Care. “The Harris-Walz campaign is putting Donald Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, on defense when it comes to their record on health care, a top policy issue after the economy for many Black voters… The Harris-Walz campaign’s ‘report’ compiles policy positions and public pronouncements from Trump and Vance, with the aim of laying out to impacted voters what a second Trump administration would mean for millions of Americans currently insured under a federal plan.” [The Grio, 9/30/24]
The Root: The Harris-Walz Campaign Has Given Its Own Version of Trump’s “Concept of a Plan” For Health Care. “…Trump wants to implement ‘some deregulatory agenda’ that separates Americans into different risk pools… The Harris-Walz campaign’s new report sharply criticizes the approach. They say the Trump-Vance plan has four concepts: ‘rip insurance away from millions, including those with pre-existing conditions;’ ‘raise the costs of prescription drugs and health insurance;’ ‘cut Medicare and slash Medicaid;’ and ‘ban abortion nationwide and rip away reproductive health.’” [The Root, 9/30/24]
Cardinal & Pine: Trump’s Health Care Plan Would Be ‘Catastrophic’ For North Carolinians, A New Harris-Walz Report Says. “During his debate with Kamala Harris last month, Donald Trump said that after nine years of running for president, being president, and running again, he finally had ‘concepts of a plan’ to replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and improve healthcare access across the country… Repealing the ACA combined with Trump’s other healthcare ‘concepts,’ the Harris-Walz report says, would strip health insurance from more than 1.5 million North Carolinians, drive up prices for most of the people who keep it, and put people with preexisting conditions at risk of either losing their coverage or paying astronomical premiums.” [Cardinal & Pine, 9/30/24]
WHYY PBS: Harris Campaign Issues Report Detailing How Repealing ACA Would Effect Pennsylvanians. “The Harris for President campaign has just released a report titled “The Trump-Vance ‘Concept’ on Health Care’… 420,000 Pennsylvania residents who currently purchase their health insurance from the state’s health care exchange may see their health care costs rise unless an alternative were put in place… The report also claims that ‘more than 5.2 million people with preexisting conditions in Pennsylvania could be denied health care coverage or charged thousands of dollars more under the Trump-Vance plan for high-risk pools.’” [WHYY PBS, 9/30/24]