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Yes, They’re Coming for Obamacare (AGAIN!)

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

News, News Commentary, Politics, Society & Culture

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Jonathan Cohn and Andrew Egger break down how Republicans are quietly gutting Obamacare through a sweeping new bill. From Medicaid cuts to sabotage of ACA marketplaces, they explain what's at stake and who stands to lose coverage.

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0:00.0

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0:25.5

We are here to talk about health care today, public health, RFK, vaccines, and then government

0:31.6

health care programs and what the Donald Trump and the Republicans want to do to Obamacare.

0:37.3

Before we begin, if you like what we're

0:38.8

doing here at The Bullwork, please follow us on YouTube, subscribe to our podcast, subscribe at

0:44.9

the bulwark.com. Andrew, you wrote this morning a very real call to arms, I think, about some news

0:53.0

that came out late last week from RFK at the Department

0:58.1

of Health and Human Services about vaccines. Before we get into what your argument was,

1:02.6

what was the news? I hadn't even realized until I read your newsletter this morning. We're really

1:07.1

getting it with both barrels right now, right? I mean, we've got this stuff that I wrote about happening in the White House at Health and Human Services, kind of like the destruction from within. And then on the other side of things, we've got congressional Republicans gearing up to make all these sort of cuts from outside, cuts to the money going in, changes to the programs in various ways. We're going to talk about all that. So let's start with what I wrote about, which is the RFK stuff.

1:31.3

I don't think it's it's blowing anybody's mind to hear that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is not a major

1:37.0

fan of vaccines. That's been basically a through line of his political project for decades. I mean,

1:43.3

for going back long before he was ever on Donald

1:45.8

Trump's radar as Health and Human Services, kind of the first thing he and Trump bonded over

1:49.9

way back in the day was their shared suspicion that vaccines were, childhood vaccinations,

1:55.1

were related to autism, which has been thoroughly debunked many, many times.

1:59.3

Since he got in at HHS, he has been sort of laying the

2:02.1

groundwork for a number of these things. He's been mostly working in kind of the messaging

2:07.8

realm and the personnel realm. He's been saying a lot of things about, you know, vaccine injury

2:13.1

and making a lot of claims about supposed insufficient safety testing for vaccines. And he has also

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