Jonathan Cohn, Senior National Correspondent at HuffPost, writes about politics and policy with a focus on social welfare. He is also the author of SICK (2007, HarperCollins) and THE TEN YEAR WAR (2021, St. Martin's).
, with Vice President Joe Biden at his side. It was one of that administration’s crowning achievements — or, as Biden said in a famous hot mic moment, a “big fucking deal.”to put the law at the center of Biden’s presidential reelection campaign. The idea is to remind voters about what the Affordable Care Act has accomplished ― and what could happen to it if Donald Trump retakes the White House.
But there’s no escaping the basic math of health care, which is that lots of people can’t get insurance without public programs or financial assistance from government. That is why projections in 2017 consistently showed Republican repeal alternatives would cause the number of uninsured Americans to skyrocket — and why it’s safe to assume that repeal would have the same results now., an executive vice president at the health care research organization KFF, told me Friday.
One is an initiative that allows the federal government to negotiate directly with pharmaceutical companies over what Medicare pays for certain high-priced drugs. It became law as part of the Inflation Reduction Act, the sweeping climate and health care bill that Biden and the Democrats enacted in 2022.
Neither Trump nor his fellow Republicans have had much to say about its future. But given their antipathy toward the Affordable Care Act, it seems unlikely that they’d be enthusiastic about it. And if the program isn’t extended, prices for coverage will go back up. Whether you come to HuffPost for updates on the 2024 presidential race, hard-hitting investigations into critical issues facing our country today, or trending stories that make you laugh, we appreciate you. The truth is, news costs money to produce, and we are proud that we have never put our stories behind an expensive paywall.
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