No Benefit to Trump’s Great Healthcare Plan

There are no Benefits to Trump’s “Great Healthcare Plan” – Public Citizen

Public Citizen Health Care Policy Advocate Eagan Kemp issued the following statement:

“Trump’s Great Healthcare Plan is impressive only in the fact that it isn’t great, would not substantively improve healthcare. It is not even detailed enough to be considered a plan.

“Trump and his cronies have had more than a decade to come up with something beyond ‘concepts of a plan’ but have failed time and time again. The American people are suffering under a broken health care system that has been made worse by Trump and his MAGA allies.

Unsurprisingly, Trump’s concepts of a plan fail to even begin to reverse the damage he caused when he made massive cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act in order to fund tax cuts for billionaires. Now, Trump and his Republican allies are trying to cover up the gaping wound they have created with a Band-Aid. At the same time, Americans are desperate for relief from Trumpflation, including rapidly rising healthcare costs (Trump’s Health Plan Is Doomed to Fail—We Need Medicare for All).

“By passing tax cuts for billionaires and paying for them through health care cuts for tens of millions of people, Trump and Republicans showed their disdain for everyday Americans. In the short run, the Senate must follow the lead of the House and pass a clean three-year extension of the ACA subsidies.

“In the longer term, we must finally pass Medicare for All, an actually great healthcare plan, to finally guarantee everyone in the U.S. can get the care they need throughout their lives without financial barriers.”