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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
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… Some of the Biden-era orders Trump has already repealed include executive order 14009, or the Strengthening Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, which broadened access for Americans and their families, allowing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Additionally, Trump repealed executive orders aimed at reducing the cost of prescription drugs for people on the government health insurance programs Medicare and Medicaid that chiefly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 The White House website has been purged of any mention of the plan, and Trump has already repealed EO 14070, which highlighted the positive impacts of the ARP Act on access to coverage, including the enhanced marketplace subsidies that lowered premium costs.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. …”