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Insider’s Report: Former President Trump Wants to Repeal the Affordable Care Act
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No, it’s not 2017. But former President Trump is once again promising to repeal the Affordable Care Act if he’s reelected to the White House.
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In a recent Truth Social post (a social media website founded by Trump), he announced his plans to overturn the
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popular health care law. Even though none of his Republican colleagues have brought up the losing topic since it last failed in Congress in 2017.
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In a recent Truth Social post (a social media website founded by Trump), he announced his plans to overturn the popular health care law. Even though none of his Republican colleagues have brought up the losing topic since it last failed in Congress in 2017.
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Even when President Trump was in office and the Republican Party had control of both houses of Congress, he could not muster enough votes to repeal the Affordable Care Act. That’s because lawmakers have come to understand the broad popularity of this health care law and that any effort to take benefits away from millions of Americans, including seniors, would backfire on them.
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As a reminder, the old Trumpcare bill which would have been disastrous for older Americans and our nation’s most vulnerable citizens would have: 1) raised out-of-pocket health care costs for older Americans, 2) drastically cut Medicaid, which for many older Americans helps pay their nursing home bills and other long-term care services and support, 3) kept millions uninsured and 4) given billions of dollars in tax breaks to wealthy Americans and huge corporations.
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For Americans 64 and younger, the Affordable Care Act mitigated the age rating system that allowed insurers to charge them five times as much as younger people. It extended the financial solvency of Medicare and provided annual wellness visits at no cost to the patient. The health care law expanded the Medicaid program so that more Americans — including ‘near seniors’ aged 50-64 — were covered.
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After the Republicans’ ‘repeal and replace’ efforts failed, the Trump administration committed itself to undermining the Affordable Care Act in myriad other ways, including withholding subsidies, purposely under-promoting the annual open enrollment period, and enacting the Trump/GOP tax scheme, which zeroed out the penalty for not obtaining coverage.
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The National Committee is eager to once again have this debate on the Affordable Care Act, especially as a recent poll shows that 60% of Americans have a favorable opinion of the law.
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Caption: (Far right) Dan Adcock, Director of Government Relations & Policy
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Coast-to-Coast: Max and Dan Speak with Seniors
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On November 19th, National Committee Director of Government Relations & Policy Dan Adcock was invited to answer questions and offer his expertise on Social Security and Medicare at a forum held in Baltimore, Maryland. He joined U.S. Representative David Trone (MD-06) and other panelists to speak before a packed crowd of older Americans on the critical need to protect and strengthen these vital programs for current and future beneficiaries.
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National Committee President and CEO Max Richtman traveled to the West Coast on December 2nd to attend a town hall meeting at a senior center in Oceanside, California. The discussion quickly turned to the work the National Committee is doing to protect seniors’ earned benefits from being slashed as part of a so-called “debt commission” that Speaker of the House Mike Johnson wants to create. The National Committee opposes any commission that would have the power to fast-track devastating benefit cuts and radical "reforms" to seniors’ programs through Congress.
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Whether you’re retired or approaching retirement, our team of experts in the field of Social Security policy is available to answer your questions about benefits.
You can either search our archives for valuable advice on a broad range of concerns or submit your question here.
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This week’s question is:
Will I and my 16-year-old daughter continue to receive any part of my husband’s Social Security disability now that he has passed?
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Social Security Benefits
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Learn more about the Social Security program and the policies the National Committee supports that would strengthen your earned benefits.
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Max Richtman, president and CEO of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, said following Wednesday's budget committee hearing that "fiscal commissions always focus on cutting benefits and never on the adequacy of benefits," pointing to Social Security cuts proposed by the co-chairs of the infamous Bowles-Simpson commission. (November 30, 2023, Common Dreams, Jake Johnson)
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Dan Adcock, director of government relations and policy at the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, told ThinkAdvisor previously that the Senate bill includes “‘fast-track’ language that would allow changes to Social Security to be expedited through Congress outside of regular order, which we have long opposed.”
(November 28, 2023, Think Advisor, Melane Waddell)
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Martin O'Malley says his No. 1 job if confirmed — which is now widely expected to happen after he received a bipartisan backing this week — will be to revitalize current operations for the agency's almost 60,000 employees who have been without a permanent leader for over two years. (December 2, 2023, Yahoo! Finance, Ben Werschkul)
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Whether it’s because the current partisan environment has us fixated on age in America, or because everyone is seeking an explanation for Americans’ discontent with a growing economy, or for some other reason, an old yarn about a generational war in the country has been making the rounds lately. (November 30, 2023, Los Angeles Times, Michael Hiltzik)
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Nearly 32 million patients are enrolled in Medicare Advantage, a set of privately run plans that have come under fire for denying treatment and overbilling the government.
(November 29, 2023, The American Prospect, Matthew Cunningham-Cook)
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House Speaker Mike Johnson knows how important Social Security is to hard-working Americans, so he has devised an accountability-free way to gut it, writes Rep. Jan Schakowski (D-IL), in this op-ed. (November 29, 2023, Common Dreams, Jan Schakowsky)
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