WASHINGTON – Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (MD-05) released the following statement slamming Donald Trump’s recent call to repeal the Affordable Care Act if elected as President in 2024:
“President Trump’s recent call to eliminate the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and restrict Americans’ access to quality, affordable health care is both abhorrent and unsurprising. In 2015, he claimed he would replace the ACA with ‘something terrific.’ More than eight years later, we still have yet to see any semblance of his plan. Evidently, he is just as out of touch with the American people today as he was then.
“We cannot underestimate the devastating impact that repealing the ACA would have on our country. The law has become an essential part of American life. In the thirteen years since the ACA’s enactment, 40 million Americans have gained health coverage thanks to the law’s programs, protections, and expansions to Medicaid. More than 135 million Americans under the age of 65 living with preexisting conditions no longer have to worry about accessing the care they need. Because of the tax credits Democrats secured in the American Rescue Plan and the Inflation Reduction Act, a record 16.3 million people – including more than 3.6 million new enrollees – signed up for insurance plans through ACA marketplaces during the last open enrollment period. They’ll save an average of $800 dollars a year thanks to these new laws. I encourage all Marylanders and Americans to take advantage of these savings before our current open enrollment period ends on January 15.
“Trump wants to undo all of this progress. He plans to jeopardize Americans’ health as we recover from the worst pandemic in a century. He intends to jack up medical expenses at a time when millions of Americans are depending on savings from the ACA amid heightened inflation. We ought to take Trump at his word. His comments aren’t a bluff or a hollow threat. They will become America’s reality if he is elected to a second term.
“Bringing the ACA to the House Floor and helping lead Democrats in passing that historic law remains one of the proudest moments of my 42-years in the House. I’ve stood with Democrats – and a vast majority of Americans – to protect and expand upon the progress that the ACA made. We will continue to do so, no matter how hard Republicans try to undermine Americans’ ability to get the care they need.”
We shouldn’t have to pay for illegals. Healthcare, food stamps. Housing. Democraps don’t care about Americans. They’re putting veterans on the streets to house illegals.
You misspelled socialists.
You MAGAs are sooooo predictable..
You are so far out of touch. If you had health insurance like the rest of us you would feel different. Under ACA, we were told if we like our plan we can keep it. Well guess what, my plan as cancelled and over the next three years my premiums more that doubled. This doesn’t sound very affordable to me.
Well said. There was nothing affordable about the Affordable Health Care act.
You mean the illegal law that fined me? The illegal law that drove up my medical insurance? You mean that law? Screw you hoyer and your socialist colleagues and sheeple.
Yah, ok Steny. ACA doesn’t do anything for Americans. It’s driven the cost of healthcare for normal working families twice as much. I think you’re out of touch with America and reality. You should be the 38th and just not ever rerun. We need term limits! Just another scare tactic for Steny.
What about Marylands roads and bridges Mr. Hoyer ?
The ACA benefits nobody that I know , none of them are enjoying lower premiums and Dr. Choice was a big ole phat fibbarooooooo .
You can do better Mr. Hoyer , run for POTUS !
Time for Hoyer to retire. Term limits and mandatory age retirement for all politicians. Simply stop the flood of illegals and protect the American Citizens. No more free rides on the back of working Americans.
You have forgotten the people you represent as you continually push the platform and party line regardless of how it impacts your constituency. You constantly ignore the reports that it doesnot do all that it said it would do for the people. If fact, I don’t believe you read any more of it than your heroine Nancy read as she helped push it through into law. Your time as a congressman for the people you represent is waning, Steny. You have been there so long you have lost the the vision of being there and caring about what the ALL your constituents think, INSTEAD OF those who constantly want something for nothing which keeps getting you re-elected.
the US spends ALOT on health care + doesn’t have the health to show for it. Health sharing is an alternative to health insurance. A lot of different kinds of health sharing.
It is not at all affordable, it is not at all about health care, but it is all an act. Eliminate it.
Tell me please, Mr. Hoyer, what part of the ACA is affordable???? This is not a rhetorical question. I would actually like to know!