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

Summary

Within 48 hours of taking office, Donald Trump signed executive orders reversing Biden-era policies that expanded healthcare access, threatening coverage for over 20 million Americans.

These orders weaken the Affordable Care Act (ACA) by tightening eligibility, reducing Medicaid funding, and repealing measures like the American Rescue Plan Act subsidies and postpartum Medicaid extensions.

Critics warn these actions will increase barriers to healthcare, raise insurance premiums, and lead to more medical debt.

Privatized insurers may gain more control, further escalating costs for remaining coverage options.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
    4·
    7 hours ago

    Yeah but with this trump can cut the taxes on the rich, so it’s all worth it

  • WatDabneyEnglish
    39·
    17 hours ago

    threatening coverage for over 20 million Americans.

    As intended.

    Privatized insurers may gain more control, further escalating costs for remaining coverage options.

    And as intended.

    If you’re not a billionaire, you will be a serf, a slave, or a corpse.

      • WatDabneyEnglish
        3·
        5 hours ago

        Yep.

        The class war is already happening, and the moneyed class is winning it because they’re the only ones fighting it.

      • WatDabneyEnglish
        1·
        5 hours ago

        The 20 with billions.

        They likely couldn’t win - at least couldn’t be sure of winning - on the at least somewhat level and rules-based playing field US law and policy established, which is exactly why they’re currently focusing on co-opting or destroying all of that.

        By the time they’re done reshaping government and society, they’re going to be unstoppable. By design.

  • JeeBaiChow@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    8 hours ago

    Well, it was either them or the US, in the eyes of the people who decided to sit it out. I guess ‘they’ were more important than their own brothers and sisters in the US. Hm.

  • surph_ninja@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    6 hours ago

    Any indication from him that he intends to bring them back in some form?

    Biden also repealed Trump’s insulin price cap, just so he could reintroduce it and claim it as his own. With that precedent set, and Trump as petty as he is, I wouldn’t put it past him to repeal them all just to reintroduce it as his own idea.

  • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    17 hours ago

    Healthcare CEOs should sue the government for putting them directly in harms way. No one gives a shit whether it is a government mandate or not their insurance is through those private companies, they’ll get the blame. One CEO was already assassinated, removing healthcare from millions is likely to result in even more backlash.