In 2025, the Trump administration pushed Congress to enact nearly $1 trillion in health care cuts over the coming decade. A Congressional Budget Office analysis estimated the cuts would cause about 10 million people to lose health coverage by 2034. The administration also blocked efforts to extend Affordable Care Act tax credit subsidies for people buying insurance on state exchanges. Trump signaled that a better, more affordable replacement for the ACA system would be proposed, but no such replacement materialized. Health reforms instead included small measures to lower prescription drug costs, incentives for health savings accounts, and rollbacks of regulations on catastrophic coverage plans. These changes made it easier for younger, healthier people to buy low-quality insurance while leaving older adults and people with chronic conditions without meaningful relief. Even these limited steps stalled as midterm elections approached.
"Over the past months, even these baby steps have stalled out, with the GOP seemingly and inexplicably resigned to the fact that it will be heading into the midterm elections as the party that is putting health coverage out of reach for millions of Americans."
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