Project 2025 and how they're going to strip healthcare from everyone
I know everyone is focused on Gaza. The genocide happening there is unconscionable.
But, back here, in the States, where most of us live, there's this. This is the plan starting January 1. This is just ONE section - Health and Human Services.
I'm currently involved in a grassroots project to present the entirety of the 923 pages in this form to get the information out. Their plan is literally Gilead.
I want to be clear that nowhere in their policies, goals and rhetoric does it account for what happens to all of us when these things happen.
Summary
Scary vague thing:
Investigate, expose, and remediate any instances in which HHS violated people’s rights by:
Colluding with Big Tech to censor dissenting opinions during COVID
Colluding with abortion advocates and LGBT advocates to violate conscience-protection laws and the Hyde Amendment
P. 488
Public health entities (CDC, NIH, ACL, OASH)
Can’t prescribe any behavior (meaning masking/quarantine would never have happened) (454)
Can’t use fetal cells for research (454, 461)
No mask/vaccine mandates in hospitals (475)
LGBTQ
CDC - No data collection on gender identity (456)
Medicare - No national coverage determination for Gender Reassignment Surgery (474)
Allow discrimination
in healthcare
Reverse ACA’s prohibition on discrimination against gender identity and sexual orientation in health programs/activities (475)
Withdraw Ryan White guidance (aims at reducing barriers to HIV care, medication, and support for transgender people living with HIV) (485)
OASH will withdraw support for gender-affirming care (490)
Allow LGBTQ folks to be discriminated against in healthcare (remove Biden protections - 495) and intend to have the DOJ bring the discrimination protections to the supreme court (496) which could potentially set a precedent.
In adoption (477)
Possibly take children away from LGBTQ couples if they didn’t conceive them? “married men and women are the ideal, natural family structure because all children have a right to be raised by the men and women who conceived them” (489)
Prioritize faith-based education programs & grants (that don’t acknowledge LGBTQ folks’ existence) (480, 481)
Reproductive rights
Programs/education
CDC - Implies the Division of Reproductive Health and the 6|18 initiative will be cut (454)
Fewer doctors trained in abortions - Make abortion training opt-in rather than opt-out in all medical schools (485)
No “approved curriculum” or “evidence-based lists” in Teen Pregnancy Prevention or Personal Responsibility Education Programs (477)
Deal with STDs and unwanted pregnancy by focusing on abstinence and strengthening marriage (490)
Remove the experts - Install pro-life advocates in the Health Resources & Services Administration advisory committee (who makes the mandates around abortion) and cut ties with American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (484)
eliminate the HHS Reproductive Healthcare Access Task Force and install a pro-life task force (489)
Foreign aid - Require foreign non-government orgs to certify that they wouldn’t perform/promote abortion as a condition of receiving funding. (493)
Protections
Remove protections from the woman and enforce protections for born-alive infants (including criminal consequences) (474)
Make it harder for people to understand how/where their protected health information is protected (rescind guidance - 497)
Drug/contraception access
FDA - Reverse approval of chemical abortion drugs (458)
Limit pills to 49 days gestation, in-person dispensing, report all adverse events (459)
Reduce access to contraception - Allow insurance providers to morally object to providing contraception on nonreligious grounds (it’s already allowed for religious grounds) (483)
Male condoms will no longer be mandated coverage (485)
No more Ella (week-after-pill) in the contraceptive mandate (485)
Make access harder - Withdraw OCR’s pharmacy abortion mandate guidance which prohibits discrimination when providing abortion meds (496)
Travel
Prohibit abortion travel funding (eliminate the section 1115 waivers that allow funds to help cross state lines) (471)
No abortions for refugees (478)
Government funds
No funds for Planned Parenthood (471)
prohibit family planning grants from going to entities that perform abortions or provide funding to other entities that perform abortions (491)
Cut up to 10% of medicaid funds from states that require abortion insurance coverage (CA, IL, Maine, MD, NY, OR, WA, Vermont, Hawaii, Connecticut) (472)
Oversight
Track every abortion in every state (455)
New mission statement “furthering the health and well-being of all Americans ‘from conception to natural death.’” (489)
Require health care workers to report abortion pill complications (459)
Medicare
Use AI to detect fraud (463)
Lots of regulations impacting healthcare system reporting/fund-access/insurance pool etc.
Would be good to get someone in healthcare to analyze, I’m betting these gut the ACA
“Separate the subsidized ACA exchange market from the nonsubsidized insurance market” (469)
Eliminated programs
Medicare Shared Savings Program (465)
Inflation Reduction Act (465)
Medicaid
Add work requirements and lifetime caps (468)
Eliminate benefit requirements/mandates and middle/upper income recipients (468)
Cut up to 10% of medicaid funds from states that require abortion insurance coverage (CA, IL, Maine, MD, NY, OR, WA, Vermont, Hawaii, Connecticut) (472)
Child/family welfare (some overlap with lgbtq, copied in here)
Combine child support with visitation support court (implied via example, 479)
Prioritize faith-based HMRE (healthy marriage & relationship education) programs & grants and don’t pressure them to conform to “nonreligious definitions of marriage” (480, 481)
“in cases where the father or mother does not make a sincere or serious effort to be involved in the child’s upbringing, termination of parental rights for children in foster care should be swift” (482)
Eliminate the Head Start program (482)
Potentially (implied) cut programs related to bullying prevention, children’s safety, health disparities, early childhood support, poisoning and SUID prevention. (486)
Take children away from LGBTQ couples if they didn’t conceive them? “married men and women are the ideal, natural family structure because all children have a right to be raised by the men and women who conceived them” (489)
Housing
“Rescind legal analysis that authorized HHS to impose a moratorium on rental evictions during COVID” (492)
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