Dear Friends of Protect Our Care,
As we recover from the shock and disappointment of the 2024 election, I want to pause for a moment to thank everyone in the Protect Our Care family for your extraordinary commitment to making equitable and affordable health care a reality for everyone in America. We will never stop fighting.
I founded Protect Our Care in 2017 to stop Donald Trump from repealing the Affordable Care Act – and we succeeded. But today, the threat to our health care is even more severe. Trump’s nomination of anti-vaccine zealot and conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be HHS Secretary makes it clear that the second Trump administration will be more dangerous to health care in America than any presidential administration in modern American history.
Protect Our Care has been here before. We protected the ACA, Medicaid, and Medicare in the first Trump term. Together, we will protect them again.
This will be a difficult struggle and the consequences of failure are enormous. In addition to the devastation to health care that an RFK Jr. run HHS would cause, Trump and his MAGA Republican allies will also seek to repeal and/or sabotage the Affordable Care Act. This would remove protections for pre-existing conditions and raise health care costs for tens of millions. Trump also plans to enact draconian funding cuts and work requirements that would devastate Medicaid and threaten health care for its 73 million enrollees. These include low income children and adults as well as people with disabilities and seniors who need long-term care. Republicans have further vowed to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act, which will raise drug prices for millions of seniors.
Protect Our Care will be the “tip of the spear” in this battle to protect our health care from Trump’s extreme agenda. We are an action-oriented organization that combines experience and expertise in policy, politics, legislative strategy, advocacy, message development, communications, and organizing. We are already convening allies, strategizing with leaders in Congress, and expanding our targeted state based efforts.
I am so proud of what we have achieved together and thankful for your partnership. The battle goes on and with your continued support there are more victories to come in the future.
Best,
Leslie
