Trump and Republicans want you to believe that they aren’t taking away your health care, but the numbers don’t lie. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released new analysis confirming the GOP’s deeply unpopular plan will rip health care away from 16 million Americans in order to pay for tax breaks for billionaires and big corporations.
Trump’s big, ugly bill cuts nearly a trillion from Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Combined with taking away the ACA tax credits, the GOP plan will destroy our health care system and cause devastation to millions of Americans. This level of coverage loss hasn’t been seen since the 2017 ACA repeal effort, threatening the livelihood of millions, including seniors, children, people with disabilities, cancer patients, small business owners, and more. It’s a scam to give massive tax breaks to the ultra-wealthy and large corporations on the backs of hard-working families. It’s time for Republicans in the Senate to prove where they stand: with billionaires or with everyday Americans.
Here’s exactly how Republicans are sabotaging health care:
- Rips health care away from 16 million Americans, including seniors, children, veterans, and people with disabilities, to pay for tax breaks for billionaires like Elon Musk and corporations such as Big Pharma.
- Cuts over $1 trillion from Medicaid and the ACA to pay for handouts to the wealthiest Americans.
- Hikes premiums for over 24 million Americans including rural Americans, small business owners, and middle-class families.
- Guts over $150 billion in critical funding for hospitals, which will shutter facilities, causing more Americans to live in maternity care deserts, travel further to emergency rooms, and face longer wait times.
- Generates over $600 billion in funding for tax breaks for the rich by making it harder than ever for working families to get the health care they need.
- Demands $8.2 billion in new health care payments from families who are already struggling.
- Contains a $5 billion giveaway to drug companies that will drive up the cost of prescription drugs for seniors and taxpayers.