Tax Fight 2025

ACA Talking Points for Creators

11. 03. 2025

  • Affordability: Rising prices on everything from groceries, to housing, and utilities are already hard and now they expect us to pay double for healthcare too? 
    • Republican cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act will mean higher costs, less coverage, and the beginnings of a public health disaster.
    • Monthly healthcare costs will more than double for 22 million people starting in January.
  • Accessibility: These cuts will hurt workers who are already struggling with the cost-of-living the most –  like self-employed people, service industry workers, and family caregivers. 
    • Self-employed people like handymen, hairstylists, rideshare drivers and independent creatives like you will have to pay double or be forced to go without coverage. And for so many, losing insurance means you’re one accident away from going into bankruptcy just to pay a hospital bill. 
    • Millions of small business owners rely on the ACA marketplace for health coverage. Republican cuts to these programs threaten their ability to make a living, and many may be forced to choose between keeping their healthcare or keeping their business.
    • Your barista, bartender, and barber all likely get their healthcare on the ACA marketplace. But lots of other people like farmers, construction workers, home health aides, and janitors do too. The thing they all have in common: they’re already struggling with the cost-of-living, and the last thing they need is a huge healthcare bill. 
  • Public Health Crisis: Costs will go up for everyone
    • Over 4 million people will lose their health insurance entirely because they can’t afford coverage. When people lose coverage, emergency rooms become their only source of healthcare. ER wait times increase for everyone and hospitals pass on higher operating costs to patients who can pay. 
    • Hospitals and clinics across the country will be forced to close as a result of this bill, especially in rural areas. Not only will that impact everyone’s ability to access local care, but it will also cost these areas jobs.
    • Medicaid covers more than 40% of all births in the US, the Republican cuts to Medicaid will put new parents in debt when they can least afford it.
    • Even if you don’t get coverage through Medicaid or the ACA, the ripple effects of these healthcare cuts will hit you too. With less young and healthy people paying for insurance, healthcare companies will raise premiums for everyone to retain their profits.
  • Accountability: Health insurance companies and their rich CEOs are already making healthcare expensive and terrible. Instead of lowering costs for us, Republicans are helping them. 
    • The healthcare system isn’t working for anyone and this only makes it worse.
    • Republicans engineered this health care crisis when they cut Medicaid and refused to extend the ACA subsidies – and in the same bill, they gave huge tax cuts to the same ultra-rich health insurance CEOs ripping us all off in the first place. It’s not a coincidence. 
    • The ongoing alliance of GOP electeds and health insurance executives to maximize profits at your expense, means that CEOs make record profits and pay fewer taxes on them while your insurance rates skyrocket
    • Many Republicans are directly invested in the profits of these companies, because their executives donate to their campaigns and pay armies of lobbyists to make sure that Congress does their bidding. It’s a mutually beneficial relationship; they both profit, and the rest of us lose.