An Investment in Health is an Investment in Wealth

When I Have Fears Part 5

Before President Obama brought the concept of Nation Healthcare, we were the only country in the developed world that didn’t have a health program that covered every citizen. Perhaps ObamaCare was not perfect. It is my personal belief that medicare insurance should cost the same from one state to another and one city to another. And it should cover men, women and children equally according to need. Instead of attempting to improve healthcare, this administration has made every effort possible to destroy it. This president and his administration has no care or compassion for the average man, woman or child.

Action	Policy Area	Specific Policy Area	Date
428. Halted Obamacare implementation, began process of repeal which is expected to cause 18 million to lose their health insurance immediately, and 32 million to lose their health insurance in 10 years	Healthcare and Social Spending	Healthcare	24-Jan-2017
429. Halted pre-paid $5 million meant for ads and outreach for Healthcare.gov during the crucial signup period for health insurance, sabotaging efforts to inform people of their health insurance options and potentially raising insurance premiums.	Healthcare and Social Spending	Healthcare	26-Jan-2017
430. Reneged on his campaign promise to negotiate drug prices	Healthcare and Social Spending	Healthcare	31-Jan-2017
431. Proposed new rules to make special enrollments under Obamacare more difficult	Healthcare and Social Spending	Healthcare	2-Feb-2017
432. Wiped references to the Affordable Care Act from government websites	Healthcare and Social Spending	Healthcare	9-Feb-2017
433. Shortened the enrollment period for the ACA by one and a half months, making it increasingly difficult for people to gain access to affordable healthcare	Healthcare and Social Spending	Healthcare	15-Feb-2017
434. Lowered the quality standards for healthcare plans listed on the ACA marketplace	Healthcare and Social Spending	Healthcare	15-Feb-2017
435. Rolled back Obama era education rules that attempted to lighten the punitive actions related to standardized testing and take a more nuanced approach to tracking student performance	Healthcare and Social Spending	Education and Student Loans	9-Mar-2017
436. Broke numerous campaign promises on healthcare by introducing and promoting the American Health Care Act (AHCA) which, among other things, slashes $880 billion from Medicaid and substantially reduces coverage	Healthcare and Social Spending	Healthcare	13-Mar-2017
437. Killed a rule limiting drug testing requirements for unemployment benefits	Healthcare and Social Spending	Social Spending and Services	14-Mar-2017
438. Allowed debt collectors to charge usurious rates on past due student loans	Healthcare and Social Spending	Education and Student Loans	17-Mar-2017
439. Betrayed his base and jeopardized the future of the American economy by pushing a budget which slashes programs poor, elderly and rural voters rely on while also slashing funding for scientific research and education, among other things	Healthcare and Social Spending	Social Spending and Services	16-Mar-2017

440. After the original push to repeal Obamacare failed, restarted repeal efforts by offering to ditch coverage for those with pre- existing conditions	Healthcare and Social Spending	Healthcare	4-Apr-2017
441. Refused to assure health insurance companies that they will receive payments that help low income Americans with out of pocket expenses	Healthcare and Social Spending	Healthcare	18-Apr-2017
442. Rolled back nutrition standards for school lunch programs	Healthcare and Social Spending	Social Spending and Services	1-May-2017
443. Effectively subsidized Florida’s decision not to expand Medicaid	Healthcare and Social Spending	Healthcare	1-May-2017
444. Rehired student loan debt collectors who had previously been caught lying to people trying to get their loans out of default	Healthcare and Social Spending	Education and Student Loans	3-May-2017
445. Slashed the Office of Drug Control’s budget by 95% seriously undermining the fight against the opiod epidemic	Healthcare and Social Spending	Social Spending and Services	5-May-2017
446. Has made it standard practice to reject college grants for low for frivolous reasons.	Healthcare and Social Spending	Education and Student Loans	5-May-2017
447. Rejected 99% of hurricane relief funding to North Carolina	Healthcare and Social Spending	Social Spending and Services	11-May-2017
448. Delayed Federal standards that would have required states find ways of delivery care to medicaid patients in homes and community based settings	Healthcare and Social Spending	Healthcare	11-May-2017
449. Encouraged states to ask for Obamacare waivers to set up high risk pools, undermining healthcare reform	Healthcare and Social Spending	Healthcare	16-May-2017
450. Began dismantling online enrollment for small businesses under the ACA	Healthcare and Social Spending	Healthcare	15-May-2017
451. A CBO report revealed that the revised Republican healthcare plan would leave 23 million people uninsured, and hit older, and cause premiums for lower income Americans with health issues particularly hard. The report also stressed that the plan would potentially raise healthcare cost overall and push a greater share of the costs on consumers	Healthcare and Social Spending	Healthcare	24-May-2017
452. The budget makes substantial cuts to social programs, including education, health insurance for children, and UN peacekeeping operations, to name a few programs	Healthcare and Social Spending	Social Spending and Services	22-May-2017

453. Proposed ending a student loan forgiveness program for people who make consistent payments and work for organizations that serve the public good	Healthcare and Social Spending	Education and Student Loans	24-May-2017
454. Ended rules protecting students from student loan fraud.	Healthcare and Social Spending	Education and Student Loans	14-Jun-2017
455. Has been generally negligent on issues related to HIV	Healthcare and Social Spending	Social Spending and Services	20-Jun-2017
456. When the administration halted a rule to protect students from fraud and cancel student loan debts accrued as a result of that fraud (Item #455), the Trump administration cut the public out of process, possibly violating the law and attracting lawsuits from 17 states	Healthcare and Social Spending	Education and Student Loans	6-Jul-2017
457. Cut $213.6 million from programs that prevent teen pregnancies	Healthcare and Social Spending	Social Spending and Services	14-Jul-2017
458. Moved to end drug reimbursement scheme for hospitals that serve low income patients	Healthcare and Social Spending	Healthcare	16-Jul-2017
459. Used money designated for healthcare outreach to attack the Affordable Care Act	Healthcare and Social Spending	Healthcare	20-Jul-2017
460. Terminated contracts that brought healthcare assistance to local libraries, businesses, and neighborhoods in 18 cities	Healthcare and Social Spending	Healthcare	20-Jul-2017
461. With Mike Pence providing the deciding vote, Republicans continued to push through their plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act in favor of their own healthcare bill which will deprive healthcare from millions, despite the fact that the bill is deeply unpopular and most don’t even know what was in the bill.	Healthcare and Social Spending	Healthcare	25-Jul-2017
462. Ended a low income retirement savings plan which currently helps some 30,000 people	Healthcare and Social Spending	Social Spending and Services	28-Jul-2017
463. A non-partisan report revealed that the Trump Administration’s actions are raising insurance premiums	Healthcare and Social Spending	Healthcare	10-Aug-2017
464. Abandoned Latino outreach for Obamacare sign-ups	Healthcare and Social Spending	Healthcare	10-Aug-2017
465. In addition to blocking the implementation of the Federal calorie labeling law, tried to use the existence of that labeling law to block New York’s calorie labeling law	Healthcare and Social Spending	Healthcare	14-Aug-2017
466. Prevented Mexico from providing hurricane relief	Healthcare and Social Spending	Social Spending and Services	29-Aug-2017

467. Slashed Obamacare outreach funding again, this time by 90%	Healthcare and Social Spending	Healthcare	31-Aug-2017
468. Once again attempted to repeal Obamacare	Healthcare and Social Spending	Healthcare	18-Sep-2017
469. Neglected the devastation in Puerto Rico in the aftermath of hurricane Maria	Healthcare and Social Spending	Social Spending and Services	26-Sep-2017
470. Dropped out of Obamacare events in Mississippi, sabotaging months of work and creating addition obstacles for people trying to obtain health insurance	Healthcare and Social Spending	Healthcare	27-Sep-2017
471. Made a vague promise to cancel Puerto Rico’s debt, then immediately backpedaled on it	Healthcare and Social Spending	Social Spending and Services	4-Oct-2017
472. Signed an executive order which threatens to degrade health insurance coverage for millions and raise premiums for older, sicker Americans	Healthcare and Social Spending	Healthcare	12-Oct-2017
473. Threatened to yank FEMA responders and aid from Puerto Rico	Healthcare and Social Spending	Social Spending and Services	12-Oct-2017
474. Ended health insurance subsidies for low income people that help pay out of pockets costs for millions. This not only threatens the physical and economic well being of the people who receive those subsidies, but also threatens to unravel health insurance markets	Healthcare and Social Spending	Healthcare	12-Oct-2017
475. Let funding for CHIP’s lapse and did nothing to resolve the issue	Healthcare and Social Spending	Healthcare	23-Oct-2017
476. Passed a budget plan that slashes $5 trillion from programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and other social spending measures over the next 10 years	Healthcare and Social Spending	Social Spending and Services	26-Oct-2017
477. After delaying several months, finally declared the opioid epidemic a public health crisis but failed to offer substantial resources to address the problem	Healthcare and Social Spending	Social Spending and Services	26-Oct-2017
578. Ended a rule that had intended to phase in technology that would enable cars to “talk” to each other to avoid auto accidents	Healthcare and Social Spending	Social Spending and Services	1-Nov-2017
479. Moved to eliminate student loan interest rate tax deductions	Healthcare and Social Spending	Education and Student Loans	2-Nov-2017
480. Revived efforts to implement work requirements to Medicaid	Healthcare and Social Spending	Healthcare	7-Nov-2017

481. Put business trade interests ahead of public health by transferringthe Codex Office, which takes part in setting international food safety standards, out from a food safety agency with a strong expertise in public health and into a trade office with no particular expertise on the issues	Healthcare and Social Spending	Healthcare	6-Dec-2017
482. Attempted to cut $460 million from VA programs that help homeless veterans, a move that was so unpopular that they were almost immediately forced to reverse	Healthcare and Social Spending	Healthcare	6-Dec-2017
483. Broke the law by failing to provide student debt relief to people defrauded by the for profit Corinthian College	Healthcare and Social Spending	Education and Student Loans	14-Dec-2017
484. As part of the tax bill, seriously undermined Obamacare by repealing the individual mandate, paving the way for an insurance death spiral that will ultimately drive people out of the insurance market and drive up premiums	Healthcare and Social Spending	Healthcare	19-Dec-2017
485. Lifted a ban on developing more lethal strains of viruses	Healthcare and Social Spending	Healthcare	20-Dec-2017
486. Fired all the members of the HIV/AIDS advisory council	Healthcare and Social Spending	Healthcare	29-Dec-2017
487. Refused to fund the Federal Government’ s share of a $13bn rail tunnel between New York and New Jersey, a badly needed piece of transportation infrastructure	Healthcare and Social Spending	Social Spending and Services	31-Dec-2017
488. Following up from #142, moved to expand the number of job categories under which people receiving unemployment benefits can be required to undergo drug testing	Healthcare and Social Spending	Social Spending and Services	3-Jan-2017
489. Discontinued a database used to inform programs which help people with mental health illnesses and substance abuse problems	Healthcare and Social Spending	Social Spending and Services	10-Jan-2017
490. Opened the way for states to impose work requirements on people receiving Medicaid	Healthcare and Social Spending	Healthcare	11-Jan-2017
491. It was reported that the number of uninsured people increased by 3 million last year as a result of the Administration’s efforts to repeal the ACA	Healthcare and Social Spending	Healthcare	16-Jan-2017
492. Moved to gut $340mn from drug prevention programs	Healthcare and Social Spending	Social Spending and Services	20-Jan-2018
493. Pushed for more more work requirements on people receiving food stamps	Healthcare and Social Spending	Social Spending and Services	24-Jan-2018

494. Moved to cut funding for the International Space Station	Healthcare and Social Spending	Social Spending and Services	25-Jan-2018
495. Weakened rules that ensured that healthcare plans have a sufficient number of doctors	Healthcare and Social Spending	Healthcare	6-Feb-2018
496. Moved to severely restrict the type of food SNAP recipients can buy	Healthcare and Social Spending	Social Spending and Services	12-Feb-2018
497. Proposed privatizing US space stations	Healthcare and Social Spending	Social Spending and Services	12-Feb-2018
498. Proposed his FY2019 budget, which adds an estimated $7 trillion dollars to the national debt and would also slash social spending, including cutting $236bn from Medicare over the next 10 years, and a 21% cut to the Department of Health and Human Services, among other things	Healthcare and Social Spending	Social Spending and Services	12-Feb-2018
499. As part of his budget, cut funding for Amtrak in half, despite numerous crashes recently which suggest that Amtrak badly needs investments	Healthcare and Social Spending	Social Spending and Services	12-Feb-2018
500. Proposed his infrastructure plan, a series of corporate tax giveaways which encouraged the use of toll roads and other profiteering off transportation infrastructure by offloaded a greater share of the burden for infrastructure investments onto state and local government	Healthcare and Social Spending	Social Spending and Services	12-Feb-2018
501. As part of his infrastructure plan, moved to sell off Washington Dulles and Reagan International Airports	Healthcare and Social Spending	Social Spending and Services	12-Feb-2018
502. Moved to eliminate a program that provides heating assistance to low income households	Healthcare and Social Spending	Social Spending and Services	18-Feb-2018
503. Proposed new regulations to allow healthcare plans that don’t include key benefits which are unavailable to people in poor health	Healthcare and Social Spending	Healthcare	20-Feb-2018
504. Shielded student loan debt collectors from state regulations	Healthcare and Social Spending	Education and Student Loans	26-Feb-2018
505. Ended funding for a Baltimore teen pregnancy program two years early with no explanation why, earning a lawsuit from the city	Healthcare and Social Spending	Social Spending and Services	7-Mar-2018
506. Systematically snubbed urban areas seeking TIGER grants	Healthcare and Social Spending	Social Spending and Services	8-Apr-2018
507. Weakened health insurance protections by allowing states to weaken rules on what insurers must cover	Healthcare and Social Spending	Healthcare	9-Apr-2018

508. Signed an executive order pushing work requirements for social programs	Healthcare and Social Spending	Social Spending and Services	10-Apr-2018
509. Considered requiring mandatory drug testing for some food stamp recipients	Healthcare and Social Spending	Social Spending and Services	11-Apr-2018
510. A non-partisan report found that Trump’s decision to allow short duration health insurance plans in #472 will likely increase premiums by nearly 13% reduce enrollment by more than 25%	Healthcare and Social Spending	Healthcare	16-Apr-2018
511. Following up from #508, denied Native American tribal governments legal standing in subjecting native Americans to to Medicaid work requirements	Healthcare and Social Spending	Social Spending and Services	22-Apr-2018
512. Proposed slashing housing subsidies, tripling the amount poor families must pay	Healthcare and Social Spending	Social Spending and Services	25-Apr-2018
513. It was found Trump’s policy had been a driving factor in 4 million people losing healthcare in the last two years	Healthcare and Social Spending	Healthcare	1-May-2018
514. It was estimated that 4,600 people have died in Puerto Rico largely as a result of the administration’s failure to handle the devastation of Hurricane Maria cited in #469	Healthcare and Social Spending	Social Spending and Services	29-May-2018
515. Told courts they won’t defend key provisions of the Affordable Care Act	Healthcare and Social Spending	Healthcare	7-Jun-2018
516. Dismissed UN report on alarming rates of poverty in the US	Healthcare and Social Spending	Social Spending and Services	22-Jun-2018
517. Drained HIV prevention fund to finance the detention of immigrant children	Healthcare and Social Spending	Social Spending and Services	10-Jul-2018
518. Abruptly froze billions of dollars of risk adjustment payments aimed at stabilizing health insurance market places, then was forced to reverse the move two weeks later when it became apparent what a disaster the policy would be	Healthcare and Social Spending	Healthcare	8-Jul-2018
519. Tightened criteria under which student loan borrowers defrauded by schools can have their student loans forgiven	Healthcare and Social Spending	Education and Student Loans	26-Jul-2018
520. Undermined the Affordable Care Act further by making it easier to buy short term health insurance plans that skirt the laws consumer protections	Healthcare and Social Spending	Healthcare	1-Aug-2018
521. Dismissed and misled the public on alarming reports of poverty in the United States	Healthcare and Social Spending	Social Spending and Services	3-Aug-2018

522. Tightened restrictions on an Obama era policy that had allowed senior Medicare users, doctors and hospitals to participate in risk free pools	Healthcare and Social Spending	Healthcare	9-Aug-2018
523. Considered a Tennessee proposal to cut Planned Parenthood funding from its Medicaid program	Healthcare and Social Spending	Healthcare	24-Aug-2018
524. The head of a Federal student loan watchdog resigned in disgust over the administrations “turning its back” on student borrowers	Healthcare and Social Spending	Education and Student Loans	27-Aug-2018
525. Diverted $10mn from FEMA to fund his immigrant crackdown	Healthcare and Social Spending	Social Spending and Services	12-Sep-2018
526. Had the Department of Education adopt a policy to label virtually all criticism of Israel as “antisemitism”	Healthcare and Social Spending	Social Spending and Services	13-Sep-2018
527. The courts ruled that Betsy DeVos had illegally tried to delay implementation of Obama era student loan rules	Healthcare and Social Spending	Education and Student Loans	13-Sep-2018
528. Diverted nearly half a billion dollars from healthcare programs into its immigrant detention drive	Healthcare and Social Spending	Social Spending and Services	25-Sep-2018
529. Revived the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools, and with it the for profit university industry, which had been previously shut down due to compliance issues enabling pervasive fraud	Healthcare and Social Spending	Education and Student Loans	4-Oct-2018
530. Pledged to revive efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act if Republicans do well in the mid-terms	Healthcare and Social Spending	Healthcare	17-Oct-2018
531. Planned to use the deficits caused by their own tax cuts as a pretext to cut Medicare and Social Security	Healthcare and Social Spending	Social Spending and Services	18-Oct-2018
532. Allowed states leeway to avoid pre- existing condition requirements	Healthcare and Social Spending	Healthcare	22-Oct-2018
533. Ended an Obama era prohibition on Health Reimbursement Arrangements that led to degrade quality of health insurance coverage	Healthcare and Social Spending	Healthcare	22-Oct-2018
534. It was revealed that Trump’s opioid “emergency” was highly ineffectual in curbing opioid deaths	Healthcare and Social Spending	Social Spending and Services	23-Oct-2018
535. Planned a costly privatization of care provided by the Department for Veteran’s Affairs	Healthcare and Social Spending	Healthcare	15-Nov-2018
536. Reapproved Kentucky’s Medicaid work requirements	Healthcare and Social Spending	Healthcare	20-Nov-2018

537. Approved new Medicaid work requirements in New Hampshire	Healthcare and Social Spending	Social Spending and Services	2-Dec-2018
538. Ended rule meant to insure healthy school lunches	Healthcare and Social Spending	Social Spending and Services	6-Dec-2018
539. As a consequence of the shutdown, slashed nearly all food stamp office staff	Healthcare and Social Spending	Social Spending and Services	27-Dec-2018
540. Stopped FEMA issued flood insurance policies as a consequence of the shutdown	Healthcare and Social Spending	Social Spending and Services	27-Dec-2018
541. Attempted to dismiss lawsuits filed by cities over his administration’s attempts to sabotage the ACA	Healthcare and Social Spending	Social Spending and Services	27-Dec-2018
542. Failed to distribute billions in storm protection money	Healthcare and Social Spending	Social Spending and Services	3-Jan-2018
543. Moved to withhold FEMA aid to wildfire victims	Healthcare and Social Spending	Social Spending and Services	9-Jan-2018
544. As a result of the shutdown, failed to disburse hurricane aid	Healthcare and Social Spending	Social Spending and Services	9-Jan-2018
545. Considered redirecting disaster relief funds to his border wall	Healthcare and Social Spending	Social Spending and Services	10-Jan-2018
546. Low income renters lost rental assistance as a result of the shutdown	Healthcare and Social Spending	Social Spending and Services	15-Jan-2018
547. Approved Medicaid work requirements in Arizona	Healthcare and Social Spending	Healthcare	18-Jan-2018

See a full list of Trump’s actions against the United States of America here

List last updated 6:40am EST, 3/19/2019