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Trump executive orders threaten healthcare of millions of Americans​

Orders repeal directives expanding healthcare access and options for lower-income and middle-class Americans

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Trump executive orders threaten healthcare of millions of Americans

Orders repeal directives expanding healthcare access and options for lower-income and middle-class Americans
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Trump’s actions this week will affect all aspects of the ACA, including eligibility requirements, federal subsidies and enrollment deadlines, which determine when Americans can apply for insurance, without repealing the act, which would take action from the US Congress. But the actions are expected to create more barriers and result in healthcare coverage becoming even less accessible.

In a one-page document published by Politico, Trump outlines options for spending cuts. These plans include measures that would reduce the amount of money states have to fund Medicaid and limiting health program eligibility depending on citizenship status. Every option listed involves cutting funding for and access to healthcare coverage.

… Some of the Biden-era orders Trump has already repealed include executive order 14009, or the Strengthening Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, which broadened access for Americans and their families, allowing more parents with young children to be eligible for more extensive coverage. Some estimates suggest that this appeal alone could result in a nearly 25% loss of ACA coverage.

Additionally, Trump repealed executive orders aimed at reducing the cost of prescription drugs for people on the government health insurance programs Medicare and Medicaid that chiefly serve older and lower-income Americans.

The Biden administration also previously introduced the American Rescue Plan Act, a subsidy program that lowered the cost of health insurance premiums. This broadened the eligibility requirements, extending them to many more people in the US middle class.

But this program is set to expire at the end of this year. The White House website has been purged of any mention of the plan, and Trump has already repealed EO 14070, which highlighted the positive impacts of the ARP Act on access to coverage, including the enhanced marketplace subsidies that lowered premium costs.

Executive order 14070 also provided options for states to extend postpartum Medicaid coverage. …”
 
CFordUNC said:
Alright, H5N1, we're gonna need you to take a pause until we can get this ish sorted out. Thanks in advance for your understanding and compliance.
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Yeah, this is a perfect set up for the government to completely bungle H5N1 if it becomes a major issue.

If we thought Trump was bad on COVID, he's going to do the same stupid shit this time except he'll have ensured that there's no one competent and willing to stand up to him left behind to blunt his idiocy with competency.
 
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Trump administration’s abrupt cancellation of scientific meetings prompts confusion, concern

A flurry of scientific gatherings and panels across federal science agencies were canceled on Wednesday, at a time of heightened sensitivity about how the
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A flurry of scientific gatherings and panels across federal science agencies were canceled on Wednesday, at a time of heightened sensitivity about how the Trump administration will shift the agencies’ policies and day-to-day affairs.

Several meetings of National Institutes of Health study sections, which review applications for fellowships and grants, were canceled without being rescheduled, according to agency notices reviewed by STAT. A Feb. 20-21 meeting of the National Vaccine Advisory Committee, a panel that advises the leadership of the Department of Health and Human Services on vaccine policy, was also canceled. So was a meeting of the Presidential Advisory Council for Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria that was scheduled for Jan. 28 and 29.
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Needs confirmation but the kind of story that can pile up quickly …
 
A couple of my colleagues were supposed to attend a conference and present their research in a couple weeks, but that got canceled. And some others were supposed to travel to meet with their research collaborators. Nixed that too.

Medical research, who needs it.
 
Posted the Chris Rock meme “Whatever Happened To Crazy” on another thread and looks like I’ve found it on NYC’s last few posts on this thread :D
 
In all seriousness, mRNA cancer vaccines have the potential to revolutionize quality of life and lifespan in ways no other medical advancement has achieved, aside from antibiotics and probably heart failure interventions (head nod to insulin). If ttump gets pushed off this position by the absolute fucking loons of the far left and right, it could be the greatest injury brought upon us by ttump (bigly assuming he doesn't instigate nuclear holocaust). Yes, other nations will continue the work, but for all my pessimism about the US, the country still has unrivaled research capacity.
 
Healing said:
In all seriousness, mRNA cancer vaccines have the potential to revolutionize quality of life and lifespan in ways no other medical advancement has achieved, aside from antibiotics and probably heart failure interventions (head nod to insulin). If ttump gets pushed off this position by the absolute fucking loons of the far left and right, it could be the greatest injury brought upon us by ttump (bigly assuming he doesn't instigate nuclear holocaust). Yes, other nations will continue the work, but for all my pessimism about the US, the country still has unrivaled research capacity.
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Sorry in advance to their loved ones, but I’m 100% in favor of the antivaxxers choosing to forego mRNA treatments for cancer.
 
Trump cares about funneling wealth to billionaires, not national security, and knows he can continue doing so if he cuts programs that his base sees as helping the less dead.
 
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