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Virginia Delegates, Former Delegate David Toscano, & Impacted Virginians Call Trump’s “Concepts of a Plan” to Repeal the ACA ‘Terrifying,’ ‘Backwards’

"The closest thing Trump has to a plan, the three Democrats said, is Project 2025."

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From the Harris-Walz campaign:

Virginia Delegates, Former Delegate David Toscano, & Impacted Virginians Call Trump’s “Concepts of a Plan” to Repeal the ACA ‘Terrifying,’ ‘Backwards’

Following Donald Trump pledging yet again to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Delegates Amy Laufer and Katrina Callsen, former House of Delegates Democratic Leader David Toscano, and Virginians directly impacted by the ACA hosted a press conference in Charlottesville on Wednesday highlighting Vice President Harris’ New Way Forward plan to lower health care costs and strengthen the ACA that 45 million Americans rely on, including more than 1.1 million Virginians — and a record number who signed up for ACA marketplace coverage just this year.

Speakers responded to Trump’s comments saying he’s going to “end the Affordable Care Act … based on a concept and take us back to when insurance companies had the power to deny people with pre-existing conditions.”

Front Page News:

The Daily Progress: Charlottesville Dems bash Trump’s ‘concept’ of a health care plan

[Jason Armesto, 9/20/24]

Two days before the start of early voting, Democratic legislators in Charlottesville tried to bring attention to Donald Trump’s health care plan.

Or rather, the Republican presidential nominee’s lack of a plan. […]

“Concepts don’t give insulin to diabetics. Concepts don’t fill prescriptions for seniors. Concepts do not lower our medical health care costs,” said [Del. Katrina] Callsen, whose 54th District includes Charlottesville and part of surrounding Albemarle County.

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The closest thing Trump has to a plan, the three Democrats said, is Project 2025.
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