“Cultural institutions, like public health institutions, are only as “independent” from public accountability as elected officials and voters allow. ” – Project 2025
Project 2025, created by the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation, is a radical plan laid out as a cornerstone of the incoming Trump administration. Former President Donald Trump’s statement that he “knew nothing about Project 2025” was disingenuous. The authors include 140 former officials from the Trump administration.
It covers many areas including healthcare. As someone with decades of health policy experience, the implementation of Project 2025 would be a disaster for Georgia, which has one of the worst health policies in the country. health care. Classifying the public health sector as a “culture”…. Compared to science-based institutions…it opens up to raw politics. Politicized and ideological cuts to federal funding will cripple already underfunded functions such as mental, physical, and environmental health.
Trump is not the only problem. Gov. Brian Kemp emphasizes the good things about Georgia, but always ignores the bad things, like access to health care.
Georgia has the third highest number of uninsured people in the nation. Kemp enacted Georgia’s Affordable Care Act Medicaid “waiver.” aisle. Pathways cost a lot of money in Georgia and produce very little. Kemp said 100,000 to 200,000 Georgians would be affected. However, only 4,300 people have registered so far.
Regular Medicaid would provide coverage to more than 400,000 uninsured people. expansion. Additionally, 90% of the cost will be covered by the federal government. Under the pathway system, the federal government pays two-thirds.
Georgia’s maternal and infant mortality rates are dire. The situation worsened under Kemp. mortality rate increased It increased by nearly a third between 2018 and 2021.
Conservatives believe Georgia’s six-week abortion rule is too liberal and advocate banning abortions without exception. Project 2025 suggests that President Trump “should enact the strongest protections for unborn children supported by Congress, while leveraging existing federal powers to protect innocent lives.” Additionally, Project 2025 states that “FDA should…revoke approval of chemical abortion drugs.” The document also promotes restrictions on abortion access for veterans.
A Fulton County judge recently ruled that Georgia’s six-week abortion ban was unconstitutional (a decision later overturned by the Georgia Supreme Court). Kemp’s spokesperson answered“Once again, the will of the Georgian people and their representatives has been overridden by the personal beliefs of one judge.”
This statement is hypocrisy at worst. There was no statewide referendum on abortion. the general assembly refused allow voting On top of that.
“The deficit is a Medicare and Medicaid problem.” Traditional Medicare will be eliminated and private Medicare Advantage PPOs and HMOs will become the “default enrollment option.” Administrative and marketing fees for private insurance are 12%, compared to 2% for traditional Medicare.
Removing regulators’ “burdensome policies,” such as regulations that protect patients, could leave the Medicare Advantage program open to increased financial mismanagement. Medicare Advantage Plan Diagnosis Already in Question burden on taxpayers 50 billion dollars.
In the debate between President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, said He said he has a “plan concept” to replace the ACA, often referred to as Obamacare. Perhaps he is referring to Project 2025.
Millions of people will lose their ACA health insurance. President Trump proposed state block grants in his 2020 Budget for a Better America. Millions of people will lose insurance in states with lower coverage priorities.
Nationally, Medicaid expansion under Project 2025 would be limited by adding “work requirements.” This approach, known as the Pathways exemption in Georgia, failed.
Georgia predicted 100,000 to 200,000 new people would be covered through the pathway.
However, only 4,500 people received compensation and administrative costs are high. If the current national Medicaid expansion reverts to Georgia’s inefficient model, tens of millions of people will lose coverage.
Project 2025 ignores public health and pollution control regulations. It ignores science and says, “The incentives here are no different from those of global elites that block policy decisions on climate, trade, public health, and more.” Instead, it promotes vague and questionable free-market health care “solutions.”
There should be no government “price controls” or “alternative insurance coverage options.” Project 2025 would eliminate drug price reductions for Georgia’s Medicare beneficiaries and eliminate “taxes to force pharmaceutical companies to comply with Medicare pricing regulations.”
The bottom line is that neither Kemp nor Trump has a reasonable plan to improve the health of Georgians or Americans. They are similar in that they want to counter the Democratic Party and Washington for political gain.
Instead of trumpeting that he’s number one in business, Kemp should be mitigating Georgia’s shortcomings. Georgia’s health care system is bankrupt, due in part to Kemp’s policies. And Project 2025 will make the situation even worse.
