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Trump is Making Health Care Unaffordable Again (thehill.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/health@lemmy.world
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As 2025 winds down amid concerns about “affordability,” Americans have added incentives to wish family, friends and themselves a “healthy New Year.” An AP-NORC poll reports that 60 percent of respondents are “extremely” or “very” worried about health care cost increases. 

Substantial cuts to Medicaid in the Trump administration’s One Big Beautiful Bill and a refusal by Republicans to renew Affordable Care Act tax credit subsidies will bring the total of uninsured Americans to about 31 million by 2027. Tens of millions more will experience sticker shock when they get their health insurance bills from the ACA, Medicaid, Medicare and private companies. 

Over the next decade, federal government spending on Medicaid in FY 2026.), which serves 72 million Americans, accounting for 20 percent of expenditures on health care in the United States and 50 percent of long-term care, will go down by $911 billion in FY 2026.)

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[–] 23 points 11 months ago (3 children)

But he had CONCEPTS of a Plan? HOW is this POSSIBLE!

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    The tariffs would directly bring down health care prices ofcourse, the world is going to pay for the US healcare system immediately.

    Or wait, it is Venezuela, yes yes Vuvuzuela has a hooge debt to the us health care system now, they will pay in blood and oil.

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    • [–] 16 points 11 months ago

    Sure he’s making it worse but since when was healthcare ever affordable?

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    [–] 14 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    "Again"? It was never affordable in my lifetime.

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  • [–] -3 points 11 months ago* (3 children)

    Well, just in your country. It's basically free for many people in most countries.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I think the US context was implied, given the OP

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Some subset of Europeans seem to enjoy rubbing American problems in our collective faces.

    On the one hand, I get it. Americans have been jerks for centuries, and in modern history we've been rich jerks. On the other, it's unlikely that snark on Lemmy is going to reach a titan of American Imperialism. The same jerks are taking advantage of all of us.

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    • [–] 9 points 11 months ago*

    This could be biggest gift horse to the left. This is the type of opportunity/crisis that could politically propel Medicare for All.

    The only thing holding it back would be the Democrats and their donor class, which prevented this type of reform, or even the public option, back in Obama 1.

    They need to be pressured to adopt Medicare for All in their party platform for all future election cycles until it's implemented.

    Medicare for All needs to become a non-negotiable litmus test for all Democrats seeking or holding office.

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    [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    This is what his supporters want apparently.

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    [–] 9 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    The sooner people start storming the DC palace, the quicker things will get better

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    • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    The bill formerly marketed as the "Big Beautiful Bill" has turned into the "Unaffordable Health Care" act, also known as "Trumpdoesn'tcare".

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    [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    Oh this is what he meant when he said America went wrong somewhere and he will return to the golden past glad that's cleared up. To be fair it never became affordable because all we got was not even half measures.

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