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‘NO OBAMACARE’: HOW TRUMP, JOHNSON AND RFK JR. PLAN TO DESTROY
AMERICANS’ HEALTH CARE  
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David Badash
October 30, 2024
Alternet
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_ They have big plans to implement “massive” changes to the
entire U.S. food, drug, and health care system—from killing
ObamaCare and all its protections, to handing over control of all
health, food, and drug policies and agencies to conspiracy theori _

House Speaker Mike Johnson in October 2023 , (Gage Skidmore)

 

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump
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Mike Johnson say they have big plans to implement “massive
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changes to the entire U.S. food, drug, and health care system—from
killing ObamaCare and all its protections, to handing over control of
all health, food, and drug policies and agencies to conspiracy
theorist
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F. Kennedy Jr.—and they’re openly bragging about it just days
before Election Day.

Republicans conspired to block every one of Barack Obama’s
initiatives even before the 44th President was sworn in to office
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January, 2009. They have spent years promising to “repeal and
replace” ObamaCare, or just end the Affordable Care Act entirely.
Donald Trump for over a decade
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kill ObamaCare, and repeatedly said he would end it and unveil his new
health care plan soon, before admitting during the presidential debate
all he had were mere “concepts of a plan
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In September, The Washington Post
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“has spent 13 years promising a health-care plan” (video below).

On Monday in Pennsylvania, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson vowed to
kill the Affordable Care Act, which covers tens of millions of
Americans
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has dramatically slashed the number of uninsured Americans
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and offers widespread protections to over 133 million people in
America
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“Health care reform’s going to be a big part of the agenda. When I
say we’re going to have a very aggressive first 100 days agenda, we
got a lot of things still on the table,” Speaker Johnson told an
attendee at a GOP candidate’s meeting, NBC News
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“No Obamacare?” an attendee asked.

“No Obamacare,” Johnson responded, before explaining how Donald
Trump wants to “go big” in removing regulations.

“We want to take a blowtorch to the regulatory state,” Johnson
said, per NBC. “These agencies have been weaponized against the
people, it’s crushing the free market; it’s like a boot on the
neck of job creators and entrepreneurs and risk takers. And so health
care is one of the sectors and we need this across the board.”

“And Trump’s going to go big. I mean, he’s only going to have
one more term. Can’t run for re-election. And so he’s going to be
thinking about legacy and we’re going to fix these things.”

Sunday night at Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally, the
ex-president promised to let RFK Jr. “go wild.”

“I’m gonna let him go wild on health. I’m gonna let him go wild
on the food. I’m gonna let him go wild on the medicines.”

On Tuesday, RFK Jr. announced Donald Trump had “promised” to put
him in charge of the entire federal public health system.

“The key that President Trump has promised me is control of the
public health agencies, which are HHS and its sub-agencies, CDC, FDA,
NIH, and a few others, and then also the USDA.”

House Democratic Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on
Wednesday remarked
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Republicans plan to kill the Affordable Care Act, impose a nationwide
abortion ban and implement Trump’s Project 2025. These extremists
cannot be trusted with the health, safety and economic well-being of
the American people.”

Last year, Forbes
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what it described as “all the conspiracies” RFK Jr. promotes.
Among them (quotes are Forbes’s, not RFK Jr.’s):

“Covid-19 targets certain races and gives others immunity,”
“Mass shootings are linked to prescription drugs,” “The 2004
presidential election was stolen,” “The pharmaceutical industry is
throwing money at Democrats,” “The Covid-19 virus was genetically
engineered,” “Vaccines can cause autism,” and, “Former White
House medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci and Microsoft cofounder Bill
Gates sought to exaggerate the pandemic, in part, to promote
vaccines.”

New York magazine’s “Intelligencer” columnist Ed Kilgore reports
that Speaker Johnson “plans to make repealing Obamacare an immediate
priority if Trump wins and Republicans control Congress, which likely
means it would be rolled into a gigantic budget-reconciliation bill
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steamrolled through to passage if possible.”

Kilgore adds, Johnson’s “party’s designs on health-care policy
are radical, meant to replace the regulations central to Obamacare’s
coverage guarantees with ‘free market’ provisions almost certain
to return the health-care system to the days when insurers
aggressively discriminated
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anyone old, sick, or poor. Johnson’s rhetoric will also give
Democrats an opportunity to remind voters that the last ‘repeal
Obamacare’ package aimed to decimate Medicaid
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the federal-state health-care program for poor people and a key part
of the country’s social safety net. Beyond that, Johnson seemed to
to be telling Pennsylvanians a reelected Trump wouldn’t care if his
health-care plans made Americans unhappy.”

Watch the videos above or at this link
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_David Badash is the founder and editor of The New Civil Rights
Movement [[link removed]], an award-winning
news and opinion site focused on progressive politics and civil
rights._

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