As 2025 winds down amid concerns about “affordability,” Americans have added incentives to wish family, friends and themselves a “healthy New Year.” An AP-NORC poll reports that 60 percent of respondents are “extremely” or “very” worried about health care cost increases.
Substantial cuts to Medicaid in the Trump administration’s One Big Beautiful Bill and a refusal by Republicans to renew Affordable Care Act tax credit subsidies will bring the total of uninsured Americans to about 31 million by 2027. Tens of millions more will experience sticker shock when they get their health insurance bills from the ACA, Medicaid, Medicare and private companies.
Over the next decade, federal government spending on Medicaid in FY 2026.), which serves 72 million Americans, accounting for 20 percent of expenditures on health care in the United States and 50 percent of long-term care, will go down by $911 billion in FY 2026.)
The bill formerly marketed as the “Big Beautiful Bill” has turned into the “Unaffordable Health Care” act, also known as “Trumpdoesn’tcare”.
“Again”? It was never affordable in my lifetime.
But he had CONCEPTS of a Plan? HOW is this POSSIBLE!
The tariffs would directly bring down health care prices ofcourse, the world is going to pay for the US healcare system immediately.
Or wait, it is Venezuela, yes yes Vuvuzuela has a hooge debt to the us health care system now, they will pay in blood and oil.
This is essentially how they sold Brexit by claiming it would somehow save hundreds of millions for healthcare
goddamn that twist on a fascist slogan underlined your point well
Sure he’s making it worse but since when was healthcare ever affordable?
This could be biggest gift horse to the left. This is the type of opportunity/crisis that could politically propel Medicare for All.
The only thing holding it back would be the Democrats and their donor class, which prevented this type of reform, or even the public option, back in Obama 1.
They need to be pressured to adopt Medicare for All in their party platform for all future election cycles until it’s implemented.
Medicare for All needs to become a non-negotiable litmus test for all Democrats seeking or holding office.
The sooner people start storming the DC palace, the quicker things will get better
I mean insurrection isn’t illegal anymore so let’s go
This is what his supporters want apparently.
They now get Big Beautiful Bills, apparently
Oh this is what he meant when he said America went wrong somewhere and he will return to the golden past glad that’s cleared up. To be fair it never became affordable because all we got was not even half measures.
