At a time when seniors’ budgets are already being squeezed by the soaring costs of health care, the Trump administration is deciding to make things even harder by ending the Medicare drug coverage affordability program. Not only have they slashed over $1 trillion from Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to fund tax breaks for billionaires and created a loophole for big drug companies to escape price negotiations, driving up drug prices and making it nearly impossible to afford nursing care, now they’re going after the lifesaving coverage millions of seniors rely on to get their medication. At every turn, Donald Trump and Republicans are making health care more expensive and less accessible for seniors, forcing older Americans to pay for the GOP’s billionaire-first agenda.
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The New York Times: Trump Will End Subsidies for Medicare Drug Premiums
- In another statement on Tuesday, Leslie Dach, the chair of Protect Our Care, a left-leaning health care advocacy organization, accused the Trump administration of “eliminating a key program that helps seniors afford their medications.”
Common Dreams: ‘Countless Seniors Will Soon Pay More’: Trump Ends Subsidy for Medicare Prescription Drug Plans
- Leslie Dach, chair of the advocacy group Protect Our Care, said in a statement that President Donald Trump and his Republican allies “continue to force seniors to pay more while handing tax breaks to billionaires and big corporations.”
- “Trump and Republicans are making healthcare more expensive for seniors at every turn,” said Dach. “In the middle of a GOP-induced affordability crisis, they are eliminating a key program that helps seniors afford their medications, meaning countless seniors will soon pay more just to get the lifesaving prescriptions they need. For older Americans living on fixed incomes, even an extra ten or twenty dollars a month can mean choosing between filling their prescription, paying the electric bill, or buying groceries. Seniors deserve lower prescription drug costs and affordable healthcare.”
Newsweek: Trump Scraps Medicare Part D Subsidy: What It Means for Seniors
- But Protect Our Care Chair Leslie Dach said in a statement that the Part D subsidy was a key program that helped seniors to afford medication, and without it many would soon be paying more for life-saving prescriptions.
- “Donald Trump and Republicans are making health care more expensive for seniors at every turn,” he said.
- “For older Americans living on fixed incomes, even an extra $10 or $20 a month can mean choosing between filling their prescription, paying the electric bill, or buying groceries.”
The Wall Street Journal: Trump Administration to End Medicare Drug Plan Subsidy
ABC News: Trump Administration to End Medicare Part D Subsidy Program in 2027
Bloomberg: Trump Administration to End Drug Plan Subsidy for Medicare
The Washington Post: The Trump Administration Is Ending a Medicare Drug Subsidy. Will Premiums Rise?
Reuters: Trump Administration to End Medicare Premium Subsidy Program
Modern Healthcare: Medicare Drug Plan Subsidy to Expire
Newser: White House Ending Medicare Drug Subsidy
Quartz: Trump Administration Ends Medicare Part D Premium Subsidy
The News Journal: Is Medicare Part D Ending? What Beneficiaries Should Know
Common Dreams: ‘Countless Seniors Will Soon Pay More’: Trump Ends Subsidy for Medicare Prescription Drug Plans
Newsweek: Trump Scraps Medicare Part D Subsidy: What It Means for Seniors