Vice President Kamala Harris received a last-minute bid from Republicans after House Speaker Mike Johnson said that if Donald Trump wins next Tuesday, there will be “massive” health care reform, including repealing Obamacare. They may also have received assistance.
“Health care reform is going to be a big part of the agenda,” Johnson told the audience at a rally in Pennsylvania on Monday. “We said we have a very aggressive plan for the first 100 days, but there are still many things on the table.”
“Isn’t there Obamacare?” one rallygoer asked Johnson, referring to the law passed by Democrats in 2010, also known as the Affordable Care Act.
“There is no Obamacare,” Johnson replied, according to NBC News. “The ACA is so deeply ingrained that we need major reform to make it work, and we’ve gotten a lot of ideas about how to do that.”
According to a Washington Post Scher School poll, Harris outperforms Trump on health care in battleground states, ranking it the fourth most important issue among voters, behind the economy, inflation and threats to democracy. has been done.
During a televised presidential debate in September, President Trump said he had developed a “conceptual plan” to replace Obamacare.
The former president proposed a reform plan in his 2020 budget, in which he said he supported “several initiatives to give states and consumers back control of their health care and increase affordability and consumer choice.” . The plan would have repealed the ACA’s premium subsidies and Medicaid expansion, replaced them with block grants to states, and would have capped federal spending on Medicaid. The plan could reduce federal health spending by more than $1 trillion over 10 years.
Democrats claim in their campaign promises that more than 20 million Americans will have health insurance and that the uninsured rate, including 2.3 million young people, has been cut by nearly half under Obamacare. They point out that medical discrimination based on pre-existing conditions is currently illegal.
“Democrats have fought for generations to ensure universal health care for Americans, and we are proud to be the party that passed Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act,” the policy statement said. I think,” it says.
Democrats argue that returning to pre-Obamacare policies would mean a return to “free market” health care and undermine health coverage for vulnerable members of the population.
“We want to unleash a firestorm on the regulatory state,” Johnson reportedly said. “These government agencies are being used as weapons against people and are destroying free markets. It’s like a boot on the necks of job creators, entrepreneurs, and risk takers. .”
