Hard-working families across the country are reeling from the disastrous aftermath of Donald Trump and Republicans’ big, ugly bill. In one stroke of a pen, they stripped health care from more than 15 million people and slashed over $1 trillion from Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act — all so billionaires and big corporations could get another tax break. The fallout has been devastating: costs are skyrocketing, coverage is collapsing, and hospitals have closed, leaving entire communities without care. Families are being forced to choose between paying for care and putting food on the table.
Instead of working to ease the burden they caused, Trump and Republicans have doubled down on an agenda that continues the chaos and destruction of health care. They are holding the government hostage unless they can rip away Affordable Care Act tax credits, continue cutting Medicaid, and hike health care costs. With every action the Trump administration takes, they are throwing working families under the bus, at a time when families are already struggling with rising cost of living, unemployment, and tariffs. Since taking office, Donald Trump has:
- Passed legislation that will kick 15 million Americans off their health care, bury them in out-of-pocket costs, and drown them in medical debt.
- Eliminated the working families health care tax credit, nearly doubling premiums for over 20 million Americans who purchase insurance on their own.
- Made the largest cuts to health care in history and skyrocketed the burden of uncompensated care, which will likely shift billions of dollars in additional costs to people with employer-based health insurance.
- Gutted over $1 trillion from Medicaid and the ACA, shuttering hospitals and raising prices by an average of $500 per hospital stay at nearby facilities that remain open.
- Imposed a sick tax on over 20 million low-income people who rely on Medicaid, hitting them with an average of $1,650 in new bills each year.
- Forced over 1.3 million low-income seniors to pay thousands more each year in premiums and out-of-pocket costs by overturning a regulation.
- Pushed families losing their high-quality, affordable coverage due to the Big, Ugly bill towards high-deductible plans that skyrocket their out-of-pocket costs.
- Changed insurance payment formulas to allow insurers to rip off consumers with higher deductibles and greater out-of-pocket costs.
- Hiked the cost of prescription drug coverage for seniors.
- Handed Big Pharma a multibillion dollar giveaway allowing them to charge seniors whatever they want for more drugs, including blockbuster cancer drugs.
- Stopped seniors from being able to purchase popular generic drugs for only $2.
- Instituted ill-advised tariffs that are skyrocketing the cost of premiums and medical devices.
- Drove an estimated 4.6 million Americans into medical debt and overturned a regulation that would have protected Americans’ credit scores from being affected by medical debt.
- Overturned a rule that would make it easier for working families to enroll in Medicaid, leaving an estimated one million Americans without affordable care.
- Terminated 90 percent of the funding that helps Americans navigate the marketplace and enroll in affordable coverage that meets their needs.
