Health care revamp eliminates childhood screenings, vaccinations and other critical care
On the heels of a presidential nominating convention that highlighted some of the dangers of Project 2025, a new analysis finds that the radial blueprint for a Republican administration would rob millions of children of health care.
The analysis, “Project 2025 would take health care from millions of children,” outlines Project 2025’s plan to eliminate crucial childhood screenings, vaccinations, and early interventions, subject children with chronic conditions such as cancer or special needs to arbitrary coverage limits, and significantly increase the cost of health care for low-income families.
Project 2025 would revamp Medicaid to reduce federal funding to states, forcing them to cut benefits, lower provider reimbursement rates, and tighten eligibility criteria, which would limit children’s access to necessary health services. The plan also would allow states to eliminate mandatory childhood benefits such as the Early and Periodic, Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment (EPSDT), which ensures access to crucial preventative medicine and early interventions that are essential to children’s development. Annual and lifetime caps on benefits would rob critically ill children of health care once they hit the arbitrary coverage ceiling, an especially cruel policy that will deprive children with cancer or other special needs of life-sustaining therapies, medications, and specialized treatments, including some that are not available through private insurance. Project 2025 also would implement work requirements for Medicaid eligibility, which would significantly reduce family coverage and the financial stability of low-income households.
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