It’s déjà vu all over again. Over 24 million Americans are facing skyrocketing health insurance costs, but Trump and Republicans in Congress have failed to deliver the solution the American people overwhelmingly support: restoring the Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax credits that make health care affordable for working families. Instead, they’re back to singing the same old tune that lost them the 2018 midterm elections: junk Insurance — or worse — full ACA repeal.
Some Republicans still remember the resounding rebuke the American people delivered the last time the GOP tried to take away their ability to buy affordable health insurance. Speaker Mike Johnson said he has “PTSD” from the affair. Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ-02) knows trying to repeal the ACA again is “the definition of insanity.” But instead of working across the aisle to find a solution for the millions of American families whose premiums are doubling and tripling under the GOP war on health care, Trump and the Republicans sound like a broken record. Trump and the GOP are throwing around ideas about “Trumpcare” and payment schemes that would mainly benefit wealthier Americans without lowering sky-high premiums, but all their flimsy proposals come back to the same tired idea that ripping away coverage from millions will somehow fix American health care. Trump has been urging lawmakers to end the ACA, and Republicans in Congress got the memo. Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) recently posted on X that “Congress should repeal Obamacare.”
The American people have seen this all before and we know how it ends. If Trump and the GOP continue their reckless crusade to destroy American health care, voters will set them straight at the polls next November. But Trump and the GOP could save themselves a lot of trouble and the American people unimaginable pain if they stop working only for billionaires and start giving working people back the health care they deserve.
