Health Care
Trump's vision statement on health care
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Timeline
| 2014.01.04 | Trump tweets "I'm not against vaccinations for your children, I'm against them in 1 massive dose.Spread them out over a period of time & autism will drop!" twitter.com |
| 2015.08.04 | Trump says the Republicans should shut down the government rather than fund Planned Parenthood. cnn.com (See also 2016 Campaign, Planned Parenthood, Women) |
| 2016.03.02 | Trump again praises Planned Parenthood's work to help millions of women, but says the organization will not get federal funding, if he's elected, as long as abortions are being done. cnn.com (See also Planned Parenthood, Women) |
| 2016.03.13 | Trump says women who seek abortions should be subject to "some form of punishment" if the procedure is banned in the United States. He later recanted after intense criticism. nytimes.com (See also Planned Parenthood, Women) |
| 2016.09.16 | Trump announces "pro-life coalition" and reinforces his commitment to anti-abortion platforms. usatoday.com (See also Planned Parenthood, Women, Social Issues) |
| 2016.10.20 | Trump says abortions take place "on the final day" of pregnancy, but doctors agree that they don't. nytimes.com (See also Women, Social Issues) |
| 2016.12.11 | Pro-choice and pro-life advocates agree that Trump's victory poses the greatest threat to legalized abortion in decades. nytimes.com (See also Women, Social Issues) |
| 2017.01.06 | Study find that repealing Obamacare could cost 3 million jobs. money.cnn.com |
| 2017.01.09 | Five moderate Senators break with GOP to try to delay ACA repeal until a replacement is fleshed out. bloomberg.com (See also Affordable Care Act) |
| 2017.01.10 | Vaccine skeptic Robert Kennedy Jr. says Trump asked him to lead a new commission on "vaccine safety," alarming health professionals. washingtonpost.com (See also People with Disabilities) |
| 2017.01.12 | Autism researcher says a potential vaccine safety commission led by RFK Jr. would falsely promote a link between autism and vaccines. sltrib.com (See also People with Disabilities) |
| 2017.01.13 | Asian Americans express fears about the Trump administration at an Asian Americans Advancing Justice panel in Orange County, CA. ocregister.com (See also Asian Americans, Immigrants, Affordable Care Act) |
| 2017.01.19 | Research shows that efforts to limit abortion access dramatically increased in 2016. reuters.com (See also Women, Planned Parenthood, Social issues) |
| 2017.01.23 | Trump reinstates Reagan's "Global Gag Rule," stopping foreign aid to clinics abroad that provide or advocate for abortion services. nbcnews.com (See also Planned Parenthood, Women, Foreign Policy) |
| 2017.01.23 | Trump revives Reagan-era ban on use of foreign aid for abortion counseling. nytimes.com (See also Abortion) |
| 2017.01.26 | Longtime anti-abortion leader Pence will be first U.S. Vice President to speak at anti-abortion "March for Life." washingtonpost.com (See also Mike Pence, Abortion, Women) |
| 2017.01.27 | Pence addresses "March for Life" anti-abortion rally on the National Mall and pledges Trump administration's support in advancing their policies. wsj.com (See also First 100 Days, Abortion, Mike Pence, Women) |
| 2017.01.31. | Immigration ban puts American citizens at risk by disrupting travel and status of patients and healthcare workers. wired.com (See also Immigrants, Unprecedented Actions, First 100 days) |
| 2017.03.15 | Tom Price lies to a cancer survivor about Obamacare repeal plan. crooksandliars.com (See also Tom Price) |
| 2017.03.15 | Trump is told that repealing Obamacare would hurt his supporters the most. He responds with, 'Oh, I know.' businessinsider.com (See also First 100 Days, Trumpcare, Obamacare) |
| 2017.06.06 | Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Sheild will pull out of Ohio's Health Insurance Marketplace at the end of this year, blaming the uncertainty surrounding President Donald Trump’s-endorsed GOP plan to replace the ACA, as the impetus for the move. daytondailynews.com (See also Affordable Care Act) |
| 2017.06.13 | Trump told Republican senators that the House GOP health-care bill which he had then celebrated, was now “mean” and he expects the Senate to “improve” the legislation considerably. washingtonpost.com (See also Affordable Care Act, Hypocrisy) |
| 2017.06.14 | In recent national polls, only about 29 percent of Americans support the American Health Care Act. Even in the most supportive state, deep-red Oklahoma, only about 38 percent of voters support the law. nytimes.com (See also Affordable Care Act) It is the most unpopular piece of major legislation Congress has considered in decades, even more unloved than TARP (“the bailout”), and much more unpopular than the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. |
| 2017.06.17 | Six members of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS have resigned, furious at the new administration's regressive health policies. buzzfeed.com (See also Unpresidential Behavior) "The Trump Administration has no strategy to address the on-going HIV/AIDS epidemic, seeks zero input from experts to formulate HIV policy, and —most concerning— pushes legislation that will harm people living with HIV and halt or reverse important gains made in the fight against this disease." |
| 2017.06.22 | Former members of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS, who resigned last week in protest, say the Senate's new health care proposals will be devastating to people with the disease. buzzfeed.com (See also Affordable Care Act) "It will kill people — that's not hyperbole. There will be some people who will die from this." |
| 2017.07.20 | The Trump administration has spent taxpayer money meant to encourage enrollment in the Affordable Care Act on a public relations campaign aimed at methodically strangling it. thedailybeast.com (See also Affordable Care Act, Department of Health and Human Services, Unprecedented Actions) |
| 2017.07.26 | In response to Senator Murkowski voting against the ACA repeal, Trump and his administration responded by tweeting at her and a phone call from Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke letting them know the vote had put Alaska's future with the administration in jeopardy. adn.com (See also Affordable Care Act, Unpresidential Behavior, Department of the Interior, Ryan Zinke) |
| 2017.07.28 | A months-long effort by Senate Republicans to pass health-care legislation collapsed early Friday after GOP Senator John McCain joined two of his colleagues to block a stripped-down Obamacare repeal bill. bloomberg.com (See also Affordable Care Act) |
| 2017.08.01 | Congressional Republicans moved to defuse Trump’s threat to cut off critical payments to health insurance companies, maneuvering around the president toward bipartisan legislation to shore up insurance markets under the Affordable Care Act. nytimes.com (See also Unprecedented Actions, Affordable Care Act) |
| 2017.08.10 | Actions by the Trump administration are triggering double-digit premium increases on individual health insurance policies purchased by many people, according to a nonpartisan study. apnews.com (See also Affordable Care Act, Unprecedented Actions) WASHINGTON (AP) — Actions by the Trump administration are triggering double-digit premium increases on individual health insurance policies purchased by many people, according to |
| 2017.08.15 | Premiums for the most popular health insurance plans would shoot up 20 percent next year, and federal budget deficits would increase by $194 billion in the coming decade, if Trump carried out his threat to end certain subsidies paid to insurance companies under the Affordable Care Act. nytimes.com (See also Affordable Care Act, Unpresidential Behavior) |
| 2017.08.17 | Hospitals in Trump country are suffering, as Muslim and Pakistani doctors are being denied visas to the US, hurting those who most are in need of help. theintercept.com (See also Muslim Immigration Ban, Immigration) |
| 2017.08.31 | The Department of Health and Human Services announced it's slashing the advertising and promotional budget for the Affordable Care Act for next year by 90%. axios.com (See also Department of Health and Human Services, Affordable Care Act, Assaults on Government) |
| 2017.09.20 | Donald Trump blocked a Twitter account from a woman with stage 4 cancer who has spoken out about the dangers of Republican efforts to repeal Obamacare. thinkprogress.org (See also Affordable Care Act, Unpresidential Behavior) |
| 2017.10.03 | The House passed a bill that would ban abortions after 20 weeks, sponsored by Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), which would make it a crime to perform or attempt an abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy, with the possibility of a fine, up to five years in prison or both. thehill.com (See also Women) |
| 2017.10.05 | With enrollment season on Nov. 1, the Health and Human Services Department has worked to suppress the number of people signing up by 1) slashing grants to groups that help consumers get insurance coverage, 2) cutting the enrollment period in half, 3) reducing the advertising budget by 90 percent, 4) announcing an outage schedule that would make the HealthCare.gov website significantly less available, and 5) not committing to funding the cost-sharing reductions that help 7 million lower income Americans afford out-of-pocket expenses. washingtonpost.com (See also Affordable Care Act, Assaults on Government) |
| 2017.10.06 | The Trump administration issued a rule that sharply limits the Affordable Care Act’s contraception coverage mandate, a move that could mean many American women would no longer have access to birth control free of charge. washingtonpost.com (See also Women, Department of Health and Human Services) The new regulation, issued by the Health and Human Services Department, allows a much broader group of employers and insurers to exempt themselves from covering contraceptives such as birth control pills on religious or moral grounds. |
| 2017.10.12 | Donald Trump ended subsidies to health insurance companies that help pay out-of-pocket costs of low-income people, after he ordered sweeping changes in the nation’s insurance system, which will send insurance premiums soaring, and insurance companies fleeing from the health law’s online marketplaces. nytimes.com (See also Unprecedented Actions, Unpresidential Behavior, Affordable Care Act) |
| 2017.10.12 | Donald Trump plans to cut off subsidy payments to insurers selling ACA coverage in his most aggressive move yet to undermine his predecessor's health care law. politico.com (See also Affordable Care Act) |
| 2017.10.12 | Eighteen U.S. states sued Donald Trump’s administration on Friday to stop him from scrapping a key component of Obamacare, subsidies to insurers that help millions of low-income people pay medical expenses. reuters.com (See also Affordable Care Act, Legal Issues) |
| 2017.10.17 | A pair of leading Republican and Democratic senators reached an agreement Tuesday to fund key federal health-care subsidies that Donald Trump literally just ended days ago, and yet the president expressed support for the plan. washingtonpost.com (See also Affordable Care Act, Unpresidential Behavior) |
| 2017.10.18 | Donald Trump backed away from his endorsement of a bipartisan Senate proposal to stabilize health insurance markets, throwing the legislative effort into doubt even as the chief architect of the deal predicted that it would become law before the end of the year. nytimes.com (See also Affordable Care Act, Unpresidential Behavior) |
| 2017.10.20 | The percentage of U.S. adults lacking health insurance rose in the third quarter of 2017 to 12.3%, up 0.6 percentage points from the previous quarter and 1.4 points since the end of 2016, which is the highest recorded rate since 3 years of success declines with the Affordable Care Act. news.gallup.com (See also Affordable Care Act) |
| 2017.10.25 | Premiums for the most popular “Obamacare” plans are going up an average of 34 percent, due to Trump administration’s actions which are adding instability to the underlying problems of the health law's marketplaces. apnews.com (See also Affordable Care Act) |
| 2017.11.06 | The Trump administration has prepared an executive order that would unravel Obamacare's individual mandate, but has put it on hold to see whether repealing the penalties for going uninsured might be included in the Republican tax bill instead. washingtonexaminer.com (See also Affordable Care Act) |
| 2017.12.15 | A federal court issued a preliminary injunction on Friday blocking a Trump administration rule on insurance coverage of contraceptives for women, saying the rule contradicts the text of the Affordable Care Act by allowing employers to opt out of providing contraceptive coverage if they have religious or moral objections. nytimes.com (See also Affordable Care Act, Women, Legal Issues) |
| 2017.12.21 | 2 million children have lost health coverage starting in January since Congress didn't renew funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). nbcnews.com |
| 2017.12.22 | Almost 9 million people signed up for ACA coverage, slightly less than last year, but it had a shorter sign-up window, and its advertising budget was slashed by the Trump administration. axios.com (See also Affordable Care Act, Department of Health and Human Services) |
| 2017.12.24 | The Trump administration is scaling back the use of fines against nursing homes that harm residents or place them in grave risk of injury. nytimes.com (See also Corruption) |
| 2017.12.25 | Donald Trump admitted that Republicans sabotaged the Affordable Care Act in their tax cut bill, and told people not to discuss the repeal to the media. mic.com (See also Affordable Care Act, Unpresidential Behavior) |
| 2017.12.29 | Donald Trump fired the remaining members of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS, informing them without explanation with a letter delivered by FedEx, six months after six members resigned from PACHA writing in an open letter, published in Newsweek, saying the Trump White House was pushing for legislation that would harm people living with HIV. newsweek.com (See also Assaults on Government, LGBTQIA) |
| 2018.01.19 | The Trump administration announced it is rescinding guidance from the Obama administration that made it harder for states to defund Planned Parenthood. thehill.com (See also Women, Reversals) |
| 2018.01.23 | The Trump administration’s commission on the opioid crisis is a sham that will not produce meaningful public health outcomes, according to a member of said commision. splinternews.com (See also Kellyanne Conway, Affordable Care Act) |
| 2018.01.24 | Three groups are leading a lawsuit filed Wednesday against the Trump administration’s approval of major changes to Medicaid, including allowing work requirements. thehill.com (See also Legal Activity) |
| 2018.01.26 | Covered California, the state's ACA insurance exchange, has published the first estimates of what "Trumpcare" will cost in 2019, as premiums will increase by 16% to 30%. latimes.com (See also Affordable Care Act, Department of Health and Human Services) |
| 2018.02.08 | The Trump administration is working on new rules that would allow the government to keep immigrants from settling in the US, or even force them to leave, if their families had used a broad swath of local, state, or federal social services to which they’re legally entitled — even enrolling their US-born children in Head Start or the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). vox.com (See also Immigration) |
| 2018.05.01 | Donald Trump's former top health official, Tom Price, said the Republican tax law would raise the cost of health insurance for some Americans because it repealed a core provision of the Affordable Care Act. washingtonpost.com (See also Tom Price, Department of Health and Human Services, Affordable Care Act) |
| 2018.05.07 | Donald Trump is sending a plan to Congress that calls for stripping more than $15 billion in previously approved spending, almost half of which would come from two accounts within the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) that White House officials said expired last year or are not expected to be drawn upon. washingtonpost.com (See also Reversals, Economy, Affordable Care Act) An additional $800 million in cuts would come from money created by the Affordable Care Act in 2010 to test innovative payment and service delivery models. |
| 2018.05.17 | Clinics that provide abortions or refer patients to places that do would lose federal funding under a new Trump administration rule that takes direct aim at Planned Parenthood. nytimes.com (See also Women) |
| 2018.06.19 | The Trump administration announced a sweeping new rule that will make it easier for small businesses to skirt many requirements of the Affordable Care Act, offering lower costs but also fewer benefits. nytimes.com (See also Reversals, Affordable Care Act) |
| 2018.06.26 | Centers and clinics established to persuade women to continue their pregnancies cannot be required to tell their patients about the availability of state-offered services, including abortion, a divided Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision. washingtonpost.com (See also Supreme Court, Women, hea) |
| 2018.06.26 | Thanks in part to deficit spending during Donald Trump’s first term, Congress’ nonpartisan budget budget estimates that within 16 years, the federal deficit is expected to be the largest in history, outpacing even the fiscal shortfalls that followed World War II. politico.com (See also Economy) |
| 2018.07.07 | The Trump administration said Saturday that it was suspending a program that pays billions of dollars to insurers to stabilize health insurance markets under the Affordable Care Act, a freeze that could increase uncertainty in the markets and drive up premiums this fall. nytimes.com (See also Affordable Care Act) |
| 2018.07.10 | The Trump administration’s campaign to undermine the Affordable Care Act moved forward by slashing funds for organizations that help people to shop for coverage, forcing the groups to make do with about one-fourth of the federal funding they got for this year’s open enrollment. huffingtonpost.com (See also Affordable Care Act, Reversals) |
| 2018.08.02 | A new lawsuit being filed argues that Donald Trump’s efforts to “let Obamacare implode” on its own" violate the U.S. Constitution. nbcnews.com (See also Legal Activity, Affordable Care Act) |
| 2018.09.26 | The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday placed the head of its Office of Children’s Health Protection on administrative leave, an unusual move that appeared to reflect an effort to minimize the role of the office. nytimes.com (See also Environmental Protection Agency, Assaults on Government) |
| 2018.11.07 | The Trump administration issued a pair of federal rules that allow some employers to deny insurance coverage of birth control on religious or moral grounds, plowing ahead despite a legal and ideological tempest, creating a deep exception to a federal requirement under the Obama-era interpretation of the Affordable Care Act that essential health benefits must include coverage of contraception at no charge to consumers. washingtonpost.com (See also Women, Affordable Care Act, Reversals) |
| 2018.11.26 | The Trump administration is reducing the number of prescription drugs that must be made available to people with cancer, AIDS, depression, schizophrenia and certain other conditions through Medicare. nytimes.com (See also Department of Health and Human Services, Reversals) |
| 2018.12.09 | The Trump administration has shut down at least one government-run study that uses fetal tissue implanted into mice even before federal health officials reach a decision on whether to continue such research, which is opposed by antiabortion groups. washingtonpost.com (See also Assaults on Facts) “This effectively stops all of our research to discover a cure for HIV,” the researcher wrote. |