10/30/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 10/30/2024 14:03
New reporting revealed that Mike Johnson and House Republicans are planning on obliterating the Affordable Care Act if President Trump is elected in November. At an event in Pennsylvania for GOP candidate Ryan Mackenzie (PA-08), Johnson was asked if health care was a part of the agenda for House Republicans' first hundred days:
"No Obamacare?" one attendee asked Johnson, referring to the law Democrats passed in 2010, also known as the Affordable Care Act.
"No Obamacare," Johnson responded, rolling his eyes. "The ACA is so deeply ingrained, we need massive reform to make this work and we got a lot of ideas on how to do that."
If House Republicans had their way, roughly 20 million Americans could see costs increase by hundreds or thousands of dollars, and approximately 3.4 million people would lose their health insurance altogether.
House Republicans repeatedly tried to attack Americans' health care this Congress, including trying to raise the price of prescription drugs for 3.3 million people and privatize Medicare.
DCCC Spokesperson Viet Shelton:
"Take it from Mike Johnson himself, the choice before voters this election is clear: Democrats who will fight to lower health costs and expand access to affordable health care or Republicans who want to raise the cost of medicine and deny health insurance to millions of Americans."