A medida que nos acercamos al aniversario de la Ley de Cuidado de la Salud a Bajo Precio, la portavoz de Respuesta Rápida del Comité Nacional Demócrata, Aida Ross, emitió la siguiente declaración:

“Donald Trump y sus aliados republicanos MAGA ya han dejado en claro que están empeñados en quitarle a las mujeres el acceso a la atención reproductiva, y utilizarán todas las vías disponibles para hacerlo, incluyendo la eliminación de la Ley de Cuidado de la Salud a Bajo Precio. Gracias a la ACA, más mujeres que nunca tienen acceso a métodos anticonceptivos y a la atención reproductiva básica que antes se les negaba debido a condiciones preexistentes o barreras financieras. Pero el plan de la agenda extrema de Trump y sus secuaces MAGA para “matar” la ACA pondría en peligro la salud de las mujeres y acabaría con la libertad reproductiva. El destino de la atención médica de los estadounidenses está en la boleta electoral de noviembre, y los votantes no permitirán que Donald Trump intente una vez más negar a millones de mujeres el acceso a la atención esencial”.

Durante más de una década, la Ley de Cuidado de la Salud a Bajo Precio ha ayudado a millones de mujeres en todo el país a obtener acceso a la atención médica, incluyendo la atención reproductiva.

Planned Parenthood: Donald Trump no puede borrar su historial contra el aborto por mucho que lo intente

Planned Parenthood: “By expanding health coverage and access to birth control to millions, Affordable Care Act (ACA) has been a game changer for women. Before the ACA, millions of women were denied coverage because of so-called ‘pre-existing conditions’ like breast cancer, pregnancy, or domestic abuse; some were forced to pay more for insurance just because they were women; and some were only allowed limited plans that excluded coverage for any health concerns they already had.”

Kaiser Family Foundation: “A new KFF review of more than three dozen studies published between April 2021 and June 2023 finds that Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act is associated with beneficial effects on a range of sexual and reproductive health outcomes.”

American Journal of Public Health: “The ACA was associated with expanded insurance coverage and improvements in access to care for women of reproductive age, particularly for those with lower incomes.”

Seamos claros: privar del acceso a una atención asequible (incluyendo la atención reproductiva) es extremadamente impopular entre el pueblo estadounidense.

La Opinión: “Más de 20 millones de estadounidenses se han inscrito en el seguro médico a través del mercado de la Ley de Cuidado de Salud Asequible (ACA) para este año, la cifra más alta desde la creación de la ley, según datos publicados el miércoles por los Centros de Servicios de Medicare y Medicaid (CMS)”.

Noticias Telemundo: “Las últimas previsiones indican que este año se ha inscrito una cuarta parte más de estadounidenses que el año pasado, en el que se batió el récord de 16.3 millones. Las inscripciones se dispararon tras la toma de posesión de Biden, con el despliegue por parte de los demócratas de una serie de exenciones fiscales que dan acceso a millones de estadounidenses a planes de bajo costo, algunos con primas de cero dólares”.

La Opinión: “A pesar del señalamiento del expresidente de la nación, cerca del 60% de los estadounidenses que tienen una opinión favorable sobre la ACA y la propuesta de Trump parece estar más orientada a borrar el logro de la administración de Barack Obada al cual Joe Biden le ha dado seguimiento”.

Center for American Progress: “According to new estimates from the Center for American Progress, 135 million people under age 65, or about half of nonelderly people, have a preexisting condition that an insurer could use to discriminate against them if they ever sought coverage through the individual market in the absence of ACA protections.”

Jon Favreau: “Si Trump gana, 40 millones de personas podrían perder su atención médica y las compañías de seguros podrían negar cobertura a personas con condiciones preexistentes. Si Biden gana, eso… no sucederá”.

NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist Poll: “Thirteen years after the Affordable Care Act was signed into law, more than eight in ten Americans (83%) either agree or strongly agree that all Americans have a basic right to healthcare coverage.”

19th News: “Abortion bans are unpopular. Republicans are passing them anyway.”

“With abortion bans becoming increasingly unpopular, Republican-led statehouses are walking a delicate line: Trying to advance bills that would restrict access to the procedure without drawing attention, circumventing normal processes to cram new policies through as legislative sessions come to a close.”

Navigator Research: “A majority of constituents in battleground districts believe Republicans are too extreme on the issue of abortion and are far more extreme than Democrats on the issue.”

Donald Trump tiene un historial vergonzoso de eliminar la atención reproductiva proporcionada gracias a la Ley de Cuidado de la Salud a Bajo Precio y continúa reiterando sus planes para deshacerse de la ACA en un segundo mandato.

El País: “El Gobierno de Donald Trump continúa su firme marcha conservadora. El Departamento de Sanidad anunció este viernes que limitará el acceso a anticonceptivos al permitir a aseguradoras y empresas privadas que rechacen ofrecer estos métodos en sus seguros médicos por motivos religiosos o morales”.

New York Times: “Trump Administration Rolls Back Birth Control Mandate” 

Vox: “In Trump’s first year in office, federal agencies weakened the ACA’s contraceptive mandate, allowing employers to deny birth control coverage if they had a religious or moral objection. Though the rollback was quickly tied up in the courts, dozens of employers signed separate settlements with the administration allowing them to refuse to cover birth control.

“Meanwhile, the Trump administration took aim at other federal programs designed to promote reproductive health and access to birth control, including Title X, which funds services like contraceptive counseling and cervical cancer screenings for low-income Americans. The result was that when Covid-19 hit, the country’s safety net was already weakened, with shuttered clinics and reduced hours making it harder to provide the low-cost care that Americans — many of them facing layoffs and loss of health insurance — needed more than ever.

“Then, in the midst of the pandemic, the Supreme Court dealt another blow to birth control access: The justices upheld the administration’s rollback of the ACA contraceptive mandate in July, a ruling that could mean the loss of contraceptive coverage for 126,000 American workers.”

Rolling Stone: “Inside the MAGA Plan to Attack Birth Control, Surveil Women and Ban the Abortion Pill”

Associated Press: “Trump remaking federal policy on women’s reproductive health”

“Step by methodical step, the Trump administration is remaking government policy on reproductive health — moving to limit access to birth control and abortion and bolstering abstinence-only sex education.”

Al igual que Trump, MAGA Mike Johnson es un extremista antiaborto que tiene un largo historial de intentar negar a las mujeres el acceso a atención médica esencial, incluyendo la proporcionada gracias a la Ley de Cuidado de la Salud a Bajo Precio.

El Financiero: “Su postura hacia el aborto ha sido ultraconservadora, al grado de que no solo quiere prohibirlo en Estados Unidos, sino que busca represalias contra quienes salgan al norte de México o a otros países para realizar una interrupción del embarazo”.

HuffPost: “The same goes for the Affordable Care Act, which is quite a change from the many years Republicans talked endlessly about repealing it. They finally got their chance in 2017, while Donald Trump was president and Johnson, then new to Congress, voted yes. The effort famously failed, but not before provoking a massive political backlash that helped Democrats retake control of the House ― and, two years later, the presidency and Senate too.”

“But that doesn’t mean Republicans have made their peace with the 2010 health care law, or that they’ve given up on their ideas for replacing it with conservative alternatives. And you’ll find no better proof than in a 2019 proposal from the Republican Study Committee, which at the time Johnson was leading.

“The word ‘repeal’ appears only a few times, always in a narrow context. But the pieces of repeal legislation are all there.”

Mike Johnson:“🚨🚨ÚLTIMA HORA: Ayer tarde, el Departamento de Salud de Los Ángeles informó a los centros de aborto en nuestro estado que el derecho a la vida ahora ha sido RESTAURADO.

Realizar un aborto y ser encarcelado con trabajos forzados durante 1 a 10 años y una multa de entre 10.000 y 100.000 dólares”.

Jezebel: “[Johnson] expressed hope that Roe v. Wade would someday be overturned, railed against people supposedly ‘using abortion as birth control’ and appeared to blame school shootings on abortion: ‘When you break up the nuclear family, when you tell a generation of people that life has no value, no meaning, that it’s expendable, then you do wind up with school shooters.’”

Y muchos otros secuaces MAGA de Trump en el Capitolio están dispuestos a revivir sus intentos de derogar la ACA.

Axios: “A fresh repeal effort could be just as perilous, but Trump’s continued fixation with the law could put pressure on Republican lawmakers to make another run at it if the GOP gains full control of Washington next year. … Two top Senate Republicans signaled they could be open to a revived effort.”

“‘I think Obamacare has been one of the biggest deceptions on the American people,’ said Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas). ‘I mean just look at your health care premiums.’”

“Sen. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), who’s in line to run the Finance Committee if the GOP retakes the Senate, said he’s open to plans that were similar to the 2017 repeal and replace bills.”