Oh , Wow!
Remember back in the day GOPer’s?
Donald Trump said on Truth Social he is not running to terminate the Affordable Care Act but he wants to “make the ACA, or Obamacare as it’s known, much better, stronger and far less expensive.”
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President Joe Biden on Tuesday called for extending a subsidy boostunder the Affordable Care Act that is set to expire after 2025, underscoring one of the most immediate health care policy implications of the upcoming election.
The president boasted that he made the ACA — also known as “Obamacare” — “stronger than ever before” by signing into law enhanced subsidies under the American Rescue Plan and the Inflation Reduction Act. That has helped push ACA enrollment to an all-time high of 45 million people, according to government figures.
“I enacted tax credits to save an average of $800 per person per year, reducing health care premiums for millions of working families under the ACA. Those tax credits expire next year,” Biden said during a campaign event in North Carolina. “I’m calling on Congress to make that $800 expanded affordable health care tax credit permanent. Otherwise, millions of Americans with that coverage could lose that coverage.”….
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Trump fought during his four years in office to roll back the ACA through executive action, legislation and the courts. He succeeded at zeroing out the penalty for failing to carry insurance, but failed to repeal the law’s insurance regulations and subsidies.
In November 2023, as a presidential candidate, Trump revived his calls for replacing the ACA, criticizing Republicans who voted not to “terminate” it in 2017 when the party fell short in Congress. “It was a low point for the Republican Party, but we should never give up!” he wrote at the time on his social media platform Truth Social. A few days later, after pushback, Trump doubled down, saying: “I don’t want to terminate Obamacare, I want to REPLACE IT with MUCH BETTER HEALTHCARE. Obamacare Sucks!!!”
Ahead of Biden’s speech Tuesday, Trump took aim at his rival: “I’m not running to terminate the ACA, AS CROOKED JOE BUDEN DISINFORMATES AND MISINFORMATES ALL THE TIME,” he wrote on social media, adding in all caps that he wants to “make the ACA, or Obamacare, as it is known, much better, stronger, and far less expensive.”
Trump has not offered a plan to do that, and his campaign didn’t detail one when asked. His party has struggled to come up with health care proposals that maintain the ACA’s benefits — including the protections for pre-existing conditions and the tax credits that extended coverage — at a lower cost….
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This post has been updated with President Biden’s pushback and Trump’s history against the program….