Republicans Rocked As Hillary Clinton Announces Healthcare Plan To Cover 25 Million

Last updated on July 17th, 2023 at 07:10 pm

The bad news keeps rolling in on Republicans, as Hillary Clinton has announced a new progressive healthcare plan that will protect and expand on Obamacare by covering 25 million Americans.

In a statement, the Clinton campaign outlined the health care expansion plan:

As president, Clinton will double funding for primary care services at Federally Qualified Health Centers which deliver community-based care serving populations with limited access to health care. This means extending the current mandatory funding that was significantly expanded under the Affordable Care Act and expanding this funding by $40 billion over the next ten years. Clinton will also affirm her commitment to give Americans in every state the choice of a public-option insurance plan, something she has supported during this campaign and going back to her 2008 presidential campaign, as well as allowing individuals below the Medicare age to opt into the program — a proposal she first cosponsored legislation on in 2001 as a senator — by providing the option to those 55 and older.

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Clinton’s plans will defend and expand upon the Affordable Care Act, which has already covered 20 million people nationwide, insuring more than 4.2 million Latinos and 2.3 million African Americans. The investments announced today in community health centers, which provide care for about 25 million people in the United States, more than half of whom are Hispanic or African Americans, will help break down the barriers minority communities face in accessing affordable health care.

Hillary Clinton said, “We have more work to do to finish our long fight to provide universal, quality, affordable healthcare to everyone in America. Already, the Affordable Care Act has expanded coverage to 20 million Americans. As president, I will make sure Republicans never succeed in their attempts to strip away their care and that the remaining uninsured should be able to get the affordable coverage they need to stay healthy.”

Republicans who were already stumbling towards their convention in Cleveland have been hit with a Clinton plan that would be a step towards universal coverage.

On the other hand, Donald Trump is promising to repeal Obamacare and replace it with “something great.” Trump hasn’t shared his great idea with the American people, most likely because it doesn’t exist. The pseudo-Obamacare replacement plan that House Republicans recently put out was nothing more than a rehash of the same failed fake health care reform ideas that the party has been pushing for more than a decade.

Republicans have nothing.

The problem with all of the Republican plans to repeal and replace Obamacare is that they don’t provide any healthcare services to the 20 million people who would lose their health insurance.

Hillary Clinton’s expanded plan is certain to knock Republicans for a loop because the GOP is going to be forced to argue that people should not have health insurance, and be allowed to buy into the popular Medicare program.

Republicans are being painted into a corner of their own creation. Hillary Clinton is rolling out her vision for a stronger American, while Republicans are stuck with Donald Trump and his empty 140 character blusters on Twitter.

Jason Easley

Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.

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