The day before Governor Tim Walz (D-Minn.) and Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) face off in the vice presidential debate, the Harris-Waltz campaign released a lengthy report of over 40 pages attacking President Trump. published a book. The Vance health plan “will eliminate health insurance and increase costs for tens of millions of Americans,” the campaign claims.
“After nearly a decade of endlessly promising to reveal his health care plan, Donald Trump insists he only has a 'concept of a plan.' The truth is, he has a plan, he just doesn't want voters to know about it,” the Harris-Waltz campaign wrote in the report.
During the presidential debate between Vice President Harris and former President Trump, the moderators pressed President Trump about his health insurance plan, to which Trump replied, “I have an idea for a plan.''
“His plan would do more than that, eliminating health insurance and raising costs for tens of millions of Americans, including people with pre-existing conditions, the elderly, small business owners, working adults, pregnant women, and children. ”, the report added.
The Trump campaign could not be reached for comment.
According to a Harris campaign official, the report was released before the vice presidential debate in part because “Mr. Vance was the cheerleader for the Trump-Vance health care plan.”
Vance told NBC's “Meet the Press” in an interview last week that President Trump's health care plan “promotes choice” by separating sick people into different health insurance coverages. Ta. This would revive a 2017 Republican proposal to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
“Just recently, Mr. Vance said that if he and Mr. Trump became president, insurance companies would exclude high-risk people — the sickest and most vulnerable Americans — from affordable health care. “It would instead allow them to be directed into an insurance pool,” the campaign said in its report, “which would raise costs for those who can least afford it.”
The ACA prevented health insurance companies from barring people with pre-existing conditions from enrolling in health insurance, and from charging them higher premiums.
According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, more than 50 million Americans, or 27 percent of the U.S. population, had pre-existing conditions such as asthma, high blood pressure, cancer, diabetes and arthritis.it was allowedIt called for health insurance companies to deny coverage before the ACA was enacted.
Between 50 million and 129 million Americans, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. may have Today's medical history.
The report also identifies four “concepts” of the Trump-Vance health care plan, which it claims are “consistent with Project 2025.”
The four pillars of the plan include “stripping health insurance from millions of people,'' “raising the cost of prescription drugs and health insurance,'' “cutting Medicare and Medicaid,'' and “banning abortion nationwide.'' is included.
Mr. Trump and Mr. Vance have discussed repealing some or all of the Affordable Care Act in campaign speeches and interviews.
The Harris-Waltz report cites a March interview with CNBC's Joe Kernen in which President Trump called for cuts to Medicare and Medicaid. But in an interview, he mentioned “theft and mismanagement of rights.”
The Harris campaign alleges that Trump “tried to hide his record by claiming that the Medicare cuts plan was solely about efficiency.”
They also mention the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. analysis He analyzed President Trump's budget during his time in office and said it showed his efforts to cut Medicare and Medicaid.
The report also links President Trump to Project 2025, saying House Republicans plan to make cuts to Medicare and Medicaid predicted by the Georgetown Center for Children and Families. it might be half Medicaid spending.
However, Trump has sought to distance himself from Project 2025 during the presidential campaign.
President Trump also said he has no intention of banning abortion nationwide, saying the overturn of Roe v. Wade puts decisions back to the state level “where they belong.”
However, the moderator of the presidential debate asked him He did not respond to a question about whether he would veto a nationwide abortion ban. When the host asked why Vance said in August that President Trump would veto such a ban, Trump said that Vance “doesn't speak for me” and criticized Vance's comments. I kept my distance from.
The report also attacked President Trump's senior citizen health care plan, saying it would raise health care costs for more than 60 million seniors.
The campaign cited an AARP analysis that found the Republican plan is similar to President Trump's health care policy. may lead It would impose a “$4,124 age tax” on seniors by eliminating the Obamacare cap that prevented insurance companies from charging older adults more than three times as much in premiums as younger people.
In the report, the Harris campaign also focused on the impact of President Trump's health care plan on communities of color, noting that President Trump's plan would increase the percentage of uninsured Hispanic Americans. 40%, said the number of uninsured Black households could increase by 85%. .
President Trump's health insurance plan would threaten the health insurance of at least 1 million people in the Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities, a Harris campaign spokesperson said.
