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.
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Biden also repealed Trump’s insulin price cap, just so he could reintroduce it and claim it as his own.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.