Washington, D.C. — Project 2025 would increase the power of corporations at the expense of Americans’ health and well-being by giving more control to health care companies while removing protections that help patients get the care they need. A new column from the Center for American Progress examines five ways Project 2025 puts corporate profits above patients. This includes Project 2025’s plans to:
- End Medicare drug price negotiation: Project 2025’s plan to eliminate the historic Medicare drug price negotiation program and other cost-savings provisions created by the Inflation Reduction Act would jeopardize cost savings for 18.5 million Medicare Part D enrollees.
- Pave the road to fully privatize Medicare by making Medicare Advantage the default enrollment for all beneficiaries: If making Medicare Advantage (MA) the default enrollment option led to only 50 percent more beneficiaries enrolling in the program, Medicare would waste nearly $200 billion per year over the next decade on excess payments to MA plans without any real improvement in health care quality for enrollees.
- Remove consumer protections from nonsubsidized ACA marketplace plans: Project 2025 calls for removing the historic consumer protection provisions established by the Affordable Care Act for people who buy marketplace insurance without subsidies, jeopardizing their ability to purchase comprehensive coverage.
- Promote junk insurance plans that leave people vulnerable to financial catastrophe: Project 2025 calls for making it easier to buy “junk” insurance plans, which would saddle people with high out-of-pocket costs and dramatically limited coverage.
- Enable corporations to more easily expose Americans to dangerous pollutants: Project 2025’s plans to pause and revisit Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rules and revoke critical EPA powers would restrict the agency’s ability to protect Americans from environmental toxins such as lead, soot, and “forever chemicals.”
“Project 2025’s plans make it abundantly clear that the extremists behind them care more about lining the pockets of health care companies than supporting Americans’ health and well-being,” said Andrea Ducas, vice president of Health Policy at CAP and co-author of the column. “Their proposals would drag us backward, saddle people with higher health care costs, and worsen health outcomes, all while wasting taxpayer dollars.”
Read the column: “5 Ways Project 2025 Puts Profits Over Patients” by Nicole Rapfogel, Jill Rosenthal, Marquisha Johns, Brian Keyser, and Andrea Ducas
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