Article from the Kaiser Family Foundation: Trump’s White House Return Poised To Tangle Health Care Safety Net
An excerpt:
“Former President Donald Trump’s election victory and looming return to the White House will likely bring changes that scale back the nation’s public health insurance programs — increasing the uninsured rate, while imposing new barriers to abortion and other reproductive care.
The reverberations will be felt far beyond Washington, D.C., and could include an erosion of the Affordable Care Act’s consumer protections, the imposition of work requirements in Medicaid and funding cuts to the safety net insurance, and challenges to federal agencies that safeguard public health. Abortion restrictions may tighten nationwide with a possible effort to restrict the mailing of abortion medications.
And with the elevation of vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to Trump’s inner circle of advisers, public health interventions with rigorous scientific backing — whether fluoridating public water supplies or inoculating children — could come under fire.”
Article from USA Today: How will a Trump presidency reshape US public health? A look at his plans.
Some excerpts:
Republicans said they do not plan to eliminate the Affordable Care Act and would only change it if they could improve it to lower costs and improve coverage.
“There are a lot of parts of the Affordable Care Act that the American public is quite positive about,” said Carri Chan, a professor and faculty director of the health care and pharmaceutical management program at Columbia Business School.
In the days leading up to the election, the Trump team put out a series of ads attacking Harris for her support of the transgender community.
“Kamala supports taxpayer-funded sex changes for prisoners,” one of the ads stated. “Kamala is for they/them. President Trump is for you.’”
The official 2024 Republican Party Platform promised to stop “taxpayer-funded schools from promoting gender transition,” under a section entitled “Republicans will end left-wing gender insanity.”