After failing to undercut the law during his presidency, Donald Trump is reviving his dangerous promise to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), threatening to bar millions of Americans from health coverage for reasons they cannot control.
Repealing the ACA would strip protections from as many as 135 million Americans with preexisting conditions – making more than 50 million completely uninsurable in the individual marketplaces that existed before the ACA.
If Trump is reelected, insurance companies could once again deny coverage to folks battling cancer or suffering from chronic illnesses, or force women to pay more for coverage simply because of their gender – exacting an enormous physical, financial, emotional toll on patients and their families.
The ACA is wildly popular, but Trump is too focused on lining the pockets of insurance companies to care.
We’ll remind him at the ballot box next November.
Statement from Biden Harris 2024 spokesperson Seth Schuster:
When Donald Trump says he would repeal the Affordable Care Act, he’s admitting that he is more than OK denying protections for roughly 135 million Americans with preexisting conditions. Whether you have cancer or diabetes, or are simply a woman, Trump’s plan means insurance companies would again be able to deny coverage for no reason at all – other than the fact that they can. But Donald Trump doesn’t care, because like everything in his life, he only cares about himself – and turns out, a billionaire doesn’t have to worry about his health insurance. The American people have rejected MAGA attempts to take away their health care election after election. November 2024 won’t be any different.
Trump says he wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which would eliminate its protections for Americans with preexisting conditions.
HuffPost: “Donald Trump says he is still interested in repealing the Affordable Care Act, which means health care for tens of millions of people would be in jeopardy if he becomes president again next year. Trump said Saturday on his website Truth Social that he was ‘looking at alternatives’ to the 2010 health care law, also known as ‘Obamacare,’ which has reduced the number of Americans without health insurance to historic lows and established basic guarantees of coverage for all Americans regardless of pre-existing conditions.”
More than 50 million people have a preexisting health condition that would have made them uninsurable in the individual health care market before the Affordable Care Act.
KFF: “An updated KFF analysis estimates that almost 54 million people – or 27% of all adults under 65 —have pre-existing health conditions that would likely have made them uninsurable in the individual markets that existed in most states before the Affordable Care Act.”
As many as 135 million Americans under 65 have a preexisting condition that could force them to face higher costs or be denied coverage altogether if they sought coverage in the individual market without the Affordable Care Act’s protections.
Center For American Progress: “According to new estimates from the Center for American Progress, 135 million people under age 65, or about half of nonelderly people, have a preexisting condition that an insurer could use to discriminate against them if they ever sought coverage through the individual market in the absence of ACA protections.”
KFF: “People with pre-existing health conditions were often denied coverage or charged higher premiums for individual market coverage before the ACA took effect in 2014.”
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