Thursday, January 23, 2025

Trump Executive Orders Threaten Healthcare of Millions

Amid a flurry of executive orders, some of which were signed live on TV on inauguration night, the US president issued several orders that repeal Biden-era directives that had expanded healthcare access and options for lower-income and middle-class Americans.

Posted by Corky at 07:33 PM | 25 COMMENTS | permalink

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Those orders are expected to affect the medical insurance coverage for upwards of 20 million people in the US.

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"Trump's actions this week will affect all aspects of the ACA, including eligibility requirements, federal subsidies and enrollment deadlines, which determine when Americans can apply for insurance, without repealing the act, which would take action from the US Congress.

But the actions are expected to create more barriers and result in healthcare coverage becoming even less accessible.

In a one-page document published by Politico, Trump outlines options for spending cuts. These plans include measures that would reduce the amount of money states have to fund Medicaid and limiting health program eligibility depending on citizenship status.

Every option listed involves cutting funding for and access to healthcare coverage."

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Thanks, Trumpers!

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-01-23 11:47 AM

Trump Executive Orders Threaten Healthcare of Millions
the US president issued several orders that repeal Biden-era directives that had expanded healthcare access and options for lower-income and middle-class Americans.

Good! People should suffer the ramifications of their poor decisions.

The FAFO educational process will be on full display for the next four to twelve years. And then for another 30 to 60 years while the GOP/Trump SCOTUS reminds us of why voting GOP/Jill Stein/Ralph Nader for the preceding forty years may not have been a great idea.

#2 | Posted by censored at 2025-01-23 12:14 PM

A lot of diabetic land whales who voted for the orange pedo ------ themselves royally.

#3 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-01-23 12:17 PM

A lot of diabetic land whales who voted for the orange pedo ------ themselves royally.

#3 | POSTED BY REINHEITSGEBOT AT

Since they can't find or afford good food any more, thanks to Donald, the they will of course result to eats that will accelerate that diabetes.

Many thousands of MAGA will die. It'll be like COVID.

#4 | Posted by Zed at 2025-01-23 12:42 PM

Grifter/grafter "concepts of a plan" for using cow pies to deliver on "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" promises

#5 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-01-23 03:02 PM

Is it possible Stephen Miller is feeding Trump this crap and piling it on in hopes of seeing millions of bodies in the streets in protest, to which they can offer some heinous response?

#6 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-01-23 08:17 PM

The orange pedo is determined to make cancer great again.

bsky.app

#7 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-01-23 08:39 PM


My main concern with the Trump administration and the health of the Country is that Pres Trump seems to be moving towards an area where he dictates the health of the Country.

Nominating a person to lead the nation's health, a person who has no degree in medicine or health (his degrees are in law)[1]. A person who pleaded guilty to heroin possession.

Yet, Pres Trump has nominated this person to lead the health of the Country going forward.

But he seems to be willingly, and upon demand, kiss the most ample derriere of Pres Trump.

And that seems to be the deciding criteria for a Trump nominee.


1- en.wikipedia.org

... A member of the Kennedy family, he is a son of U.S. attorney general and senator Robert F. Kennedy and a nephew of U.S. president John F. Kennedy and Senator Ted Kennedy. He began his career as an assistant district attorney in New York City. In the mid-1980s, he joined two nonprofits focused on environmental protection, Riverkeeper and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). He became an adjunct professor of environmental law at Pace University School of Law in 1986. In 1987, Kennedy founded Pace's Environmental Litigation Clinic. He founded the nonprofit environmental group Waterkeeper Alliance in 1999. He ran as a Democratic candidate and later an independent candidate in the 2024 United States presidential election, then withdrew from the race and endorsed Trump.

Since 2005, Kennedy has promoted vaccine misinformation[1] and public-health conspiracy theories,[2] including the scientifically disproved claim of a causal link between vaccines and autism. He is the chairman and founder of Children's Health Defense, an anti-vaccine advocacy group and proponent of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation. ...


#8 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-23 09:21 PM

He did say he had something along the lines of a plan. He didn't say anything about you liking or benefiting from it.

#9 | Posted by dutch46 at 2025-01-23 09:39 PM

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

Oh this is too good to be true!!!

LOL eat it magat scum.

THIS is what I said when I said I hope you get what you voted for.

You will see bankruptcy in your future for lack of insurance.

You will see early death due to inability to get healthcare

You are all a bunch of ------- scum and I am glad you will lose your healthcare!

Next up, Veterans losing their healthcare!

It is a true shame that good people have to suffer along with you.

#10 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-01-23 11:14 PM

FTA:

"Some of the Biden-era orders Trump has already repealed include executive order 14009, or the Strengthening Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, which broadened access for Americans and their families, allowing more parents with young children to be eligible for more extensive coverage. Some estimates suggest that this repeal alone could result in a nearly 25% loss of ACA coverage."

We tried to tell you magat scum. We tried to tell you and tell you and tell you.

These cuts are targeted at poor working class Americans, you know the magat scum.

---- you, get what you want. Eat your tumors, that'll be about all you can afford.

#11 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-01-23 11:18 PM

FTA:

"Some of the Biden-era orders Trump has already repealed include executive order 14009, or the Strengthening Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, which broadened access for Americans and their families, allowing more parents with young children to be eligible for more extensive coverage. Some estimates suggest that this repeal alone could result in a nearly 25% loss of ACA coverage."

We tried to tell you magat scum. We tried to tell you and tell you and tell you.

These cuts are targeted at poor working class Americans, you know the magat scum.

---- you, get what you want. Eat your tumors, that'll be about all you can afford.

#12 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-01-23 11:18 PM

" ... and enrollment deadlines, which determine when Americans can apply for insurance, without repealing the act, which would take action from the US Congress."

This is the "big, beautiful" changes Trump promised.

Not big and beautiful for the patient, mind you. Big and beautiful for the insurance company's stockholders.

#13 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-01-24 12:22 AM

I wonder what happened to the "get better health insurance for less money" that Trump touted?

Oh yeah, now I remember. TRUMP LIED And his suckers fell for it, hook, line and sinker.

#14 | Posted by Twinpac at 2025-01-24 01:05 AM

@#13 ... Not big and beautiful for the patient, mind you. Big and beautiful for the insurance company's stockholders. ...

Such a succinct summary.

I have nothing to add, aside from quoting it.

#15 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-24 01:13 AM

@#14 ... I wonder what happened to the "get better health insurance for less money" that Trump touted? ...

You mean these comments? ...


Candidate Trump on healthcare:

May 21, 2015
I'm not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid.

Sept 25, 2015
Everybody's got to be covered.

Feb 17, 2016
We're going to have great plans. They're going to be much less expensive and they're going to be much better.

Oct 25, 2016
You're going to have such great healthcare at a tiny fraction of the cost, and it is going to be so easy.

Nov 13, 2016
It will be better healthcare, much better for less money. Not a bad combination.


#16 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-24 01:19 AM

LAMP

BINGO!

The only silver lining is that the suckers who voted for this adoration will also be included in his death toll.

#17 | Posted by Twinpac at 2025-01-24 01:39 AM

*aberration

#18 | Posted by Twinpac at 2025-01-24 01:54 AM

"Good! People should suffer the ramifications of their poor decisions."

Yes! Those ittesponsible six year olds should face the consequences of being born! This is the Christian Right! They love them babies but them children...not so much! But most of them are just too God damnes stupid to understand why we call every single Trump voter a f
f**king hypocrit! i mean, who could have predicted this would happen? Only every person with an IQ over 40!

#19 | Posted by danni at 2025-01-24 05:43 AM

Showing his true character (what little he has).
Trump is all about the rich,
and the rich getting richer.
Screw everybody else...

#20 | Posted by earthmuse at 2025-01-24 06:18 AM

Maybe Trump's rotten personality us because Melania has the door to her 'private quarters' locked when Trump comes a'knockin'.

#21 | Posted by Twinpac at 2025-01-24 07:53 AM

EARTHMUSE

"Screw everybody else..."

That's been Trump's m.o. his whole life.

The MAGAs who believed his lies are in for a rude awakening when they find out his word has never meant anything except sucker-bait for their vote.

His deception continued uninterrupted on January 20th when he swore an oath to defend the Constitution, a vow he violated immediately thereafter when he signed an Executive Order to end birthright citizenship a decision that he feels comfortable will be upheld by the U.S Supreme Court that he and the GOP spent years carefully corrupting for moments such as this.

So yes, America is now totally screwed.

#22 | Posted by Twinpac at 2025-01-24 08:29 AM

Felon47 has always been about himself. He'd sell his crotch fruit out for a buck.

Anyone that thought he'd look out for them frankly should be sterilized. They're too dumb to be allowed to reproduce.

He is the direct result of the dumbing down of the public via attacks on the education system.

America doesn't break the top 25 in IQ scores. That is not just a coincidence. It has been a 50 year war on teachers and public school to get a populace that just smart enough to run the machines, but too stupid to see what is going on.

There is a reason why red states rank consistently at the bottom in education and health.

The MAGAs who believed his lies are in for a rude awakening when they find out his word has never meant anything except sucker-bait for their vote.

They'll never figure it out.

#23 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-01-24 09:01 AM

I wonder what happened to the "get better health insurance for less money"

I forgot all about that one.

So, keeping score:

- Grocery prices are not going to come down
- Not balancing the budget
- Border is not going to be sealed
- The Columbia River (giant faucet) is not going to be diverted to Los Angeles
- Ukraine war is not going to end
- No tariffs on Day One
- No tariffs on China, ever
- No concept of a healthcare plan

#24 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-01-24 09:54 AM

"get better health insurance for less money"

The only way to get that is to enact medicare for all.

But then how would useless health insurance CEO's afford a boat that you can park a boat in?

Won't someone think of the poor billionaires?

#25 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-01-24 10:12 AM

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