Trumpcare by Executive Order: Four Ways President Trump is Sabotaging Americans’ Health Care

When Republicans in Washington attempted to jam Trumpcare through Congress, Granite Staters and Americans spoke out and blocked the harmful bills from becoming law because they knew that they would lead to higher costs for worse coverage.

Now, instead of listening to the American people, President Trump has decided to try to instate Trumpcare through Executive Order.

Here are four ways President Trump is sabotaging the American health care system:

1) He has rolled back birth control coverage for American women.

This is a direct attack on the rights of women and their ability to access preventative health care. Nine out of ten women of reproductive age will use contraception at some point in their lives. Having access to birth control is key to women’s health and their economic success. Since this benefit went into effect, women nationwide have saved over $1.4 billion on birth control, and this move by the Trump Administration would put a financial burden on hundreds of thousands of women.

2) He signed an executive order this week undermining the current health care system.

President Trump has doubled down on his efforts to sabotage health insurance markets and undermine critical protections for Granite Staters and Americans with pre-existing conditions, substance use disorders, and more. His executive order just causes more uncertainty at a time when we need to be working to stabilize the health insurance market.

3) He decided to halt payments for cost-sharing reductions, which help lower deductibles, co-pays and other out-of-pocket expenses.

President Trump is cruelly and intentionally raising health care costs for millions of Americans. The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office found that stopping these payments would cause health insurance premiums to skyrocket for millions of Americans while also ballooning the federal deficit, yet the President moved forward with this plan out of political spite.

4) President Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services has slashed the Affordable Care Act’s outreach and advertising budgets with open-enrollment just around the corner.

Back in August, the Trump Administration announced that they were cutting the advertising budget for the Affordable Care Act from $100 million to $10 million. They also slashed funding for navigator organizations that help people enroll. These cuts to outreach and advertising efforts mean that less people will have the information they need to make informed decisions about their health insurance during this open-enrollment season.

These attempts at sabotage cannot stand. We must continue to speak-out against these cruel attempts to harm the health care of millions.