Washington, D.C. — Today, the Trump administration released new Affordable Care Act (ACA) enrollment data showing enrollment has plunged to 19.2 million people. This comes after Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress made the largest cut to Medicaid in history, putting care at risk for seniors in nursing homes, sick kids, and moms to fund tax breaks for billionaires and big corporations. They also ripped away the ACA health care tax credits from hard-working families, causing premiums to double, triple, and even quadruple. Now, hospitals and providers are at risk of cutting services or closing their doors completely, costs are skyrocketing, millions are losing health care coverage, and this is just the beginning. Insurers are already requesting double-digit rate increases for 2027.
Protect Our Care Chair Leslie Dach issued the following statement:
“Donald Trump and Republicans are engineering the most devastating assault on health care in history, and today’s numbers prove it. They ripped away the tax credits that helped millions afford coverage, gutted funding to help people enroll, and sabotaged the ACA at every turn. They knew exactly what would happen, they chose to do it anyway, and it’s going to get worse.
“Among the three million who have lost coverage are parents skipping cancer screenings, patients rationing insulin, and families who are now one medical emergency away from financial ruin. Republicans created this crisis on purpose, and while Americans pay for it with their health and their lives, billionaires are cashing their tax cut checks.”
Background
- NEW REPORT: Over Five Million Americans Lost Coverage In the Year Following Trump-GOP Health Care Cuts
- Cover-Up: The Trump Administration Is Using Red Tape to Hide How Much Worse They’re Making Republican Health Care Cuts
- For Millions of Families, Health Care Is No Longer Affordable After Republican Cuts
- Sabotage Alert: New Trump Rule Will Hike Costs Even More as Americans Are Already Grappling With GOP Health Care Crisis