These excerpts from a Pro-Kamala Harris social media site show samples of many of the times over the last eight years Donald Trump has promised to announce a new and better health care plan to replace Obamacare/The Affordable Care Act (ACA.)
It was a very telling moment at the Harris/Trump debate when the former President could only say that, after nine years, he has the concepts of a plan to make health care better for all.
Thank God Mr. Trump was not in charge of planning D-Day in 1944. Then again, he probably would have been on the other side in that war had he been around then.
Arizona Health Care Activists and Democratic Leaders in the Tucson and Phoenix areas are sharply condemning Trump for his concept comments and gaslighting the American People with the pretense of having a health care reform plan that actually helps people.
At a Harris/Walz for Arizona event in Tucson, physicians like Dr. Ravi Shah, a Tucson School District Board Member, told attendees that he “remembered what life was like” before the Affordable Care Act” when people could be denied care or their insurance inflated or cancelled because of pre-existing conditions.
Shah reminded everyone that it was the ACA that brought health care security and quality care to many Arizonans since it went into effect.
He expressed his concerns about Trump’s concepts, saying the former President “wants to take us backwards by enacting his extreme Project 2025 agenda which would jack up health care costs and gut the Affordable Care Act and Medicare. He wants to take us backward to a time when patients had to choose between putting food on the table and getting the health care they need.”
On Vice President Harris, Dr. Shah offered:
“When we elect her to the White House, Vice President Harris will continue fighting to protect our health care, lower drug costs even more and strengthen the ACA and Medicare. This will make a huge difference for my patients and my ability to give them the best care possible.”
Dr. Nicole Person-Rennell spoke after Dr. Shah and said that she:
“Was terrified of what a second Donald Trump Presidency would mean for my patients…higher health care costs for us and that one million Arizonans would lose health care coverage. Donald Trump has never had to worry a day in his life about affording medications or whether he could take his children to the doctor and still afford to put food on the table. You can’t really understand that life threatening impact of not having reliable health care unless you’ve lived it or seen the impacts on those you care for and for me, it’s my patients.”
“When I saw the debate last week, I saw two versions of my patients future. One with Trump where they live in fear every day of getting sick or having something happen to a loved one and one with Vice President Harris where their health care is protected and they can better make ends meet. Vice President Harris…is someone who will put the American People first.”
State Representative Chris Mathis also spoke at the Tucson event, relaying:
“As president, Trump repeatedly tried to cut Medicare and get rid of the ACA. We can’t let Donald Trump have another chance to take health care away from 1 million Arizonans and make good on his promise to ‘terminate’ the ACA. We have to work to elect Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Walz who will lower health care costs and strengthen these critical services.”
At the Phoenix event (please click here to watch,) Legislative District 12 Representative Patty Contreras offered:
“Health care should not be a partisan issue. We all want lower health care costs, which is exactly what Vice President Harris is fighting for. Vice President Kamala Harris is offering a New Way Forward where costs are lower for families – including health care costs – and where critical programs like the ACA and Medicare are stronger.”
Physician Associate and health care activist Amanda Shelley commented:
“You can’t really understand that panic and the life-threatening impacts of not having reliable health care unless you’ve lived it. As a single mother, even with a great profession, I was always just one major illness or injury away from having the rug pulled out from under me financially. The ACA allowed me to get quality, affordable health care when I needed it, which saved my life and left me without burdensome medical bills.”
Heath Care advocate Mike Renaud reminded people that before the ACA, “The system of care in this nation was around financial principle, not around the principle of health care is a human right and people have the right to a basic health care system…The ACA has guaranteed a portion of that right for people who otherwise could not afford it…He(Trump) has no plan to get rid of it. He wants to terminate it and have us flounder…He wants to take us backward…The Project 2025 Agenda would jack up our health care costs and gut the ACA and Medicare…He wants to take us to a time where people who are fighting for their lives with cancer and other chronic conditions have to go into debt to get the care they need. This election is really about life and death for patients like that…Vice President Harris wants to take us forward, not backwards.”
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