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==== Critiques, Risks, and Potential Consequences ====

Many health policy groups, civil rights organizations, and medical associations have raised significant concerns:
* Loss of coverage / higher uninsured rates The Medicaid, ACA, and private insurance changes recommended by Project 2025 are projected to increase the number of uninsured Americans and shift costs onto states and individuals. Center for American Progress<ref>{{cite web|title=Center for American Progress|url=https://www.cbpp.org/research/health/republican-health-coverage-proposals-would-increase-number-of-uninsured-raise|publisher=Center for American Progress|access-date=2025-11-15}}</ref>
* Reduced access, more barriers With stricter eligibility, more administrative burden (paperwork, renewals), lifetime benefit caps, and limits on enrollment, many people—especially low income, disabled, chronically ill—could lose access to essential care. Howard Brown Health<ref>{{cite web|title=Howard Brown Health|url=https://civilrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Project-2025-Health-Care.pdf|publisher=Howard Brown Health|access-date=2025-11-15}}</ref>
* Privatization and profit incentives Making MA default, increasing reliance on private insurance, and emphasizing HSAs and DPC models shift more of health care into private, profit-driven sectors. Critics argue this favors corporations and insurers over patient welfare. Center for American Progress<ref>{{cite web|title=Center for American Progress|url=https://www.americanprogress.org/article/project-2025s-medicare-changes-would-restrict-older-americans-access-to-care-and-imperil-the-programs-financial-health/|publisher=Center for American Progress|access-date=2025-11-15}}</ref>
* Erosion of public health authority Weakening the CDC and limiting its powers to issue guidance (especially around interventions like masks, vaccines) could hamper national responses to pandemics or other health emergencies. American Public Health Association<ref>{{cite web|title=American Public Health Association|url=https://www.apha.org/topics-and-issues/public-health-under-threat/project-2025|publisher=American Public Health Association|access-date=2025-11-15}}</ref>
* Reproductive and gender care suppression The sweeping restrictions on abortion, contraception, and gender affirming care are among the most contested elements. These would roll back decades of progress in reproductive rights and health equity. Wikipedia<ref>{{cite web|title=Wikipedia|url=https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/how-project-2025-seeks-obliterate-srhr|publisher=guttmacher.org|access-date=2025-11-15}}</ref>
* Weakening health research, agency capacity Cuts to NIH, reduced independence, staff reductions, and reorganization may reduce the ability of the government to respond to health crises or fund vital biomedical research. KFF Health News<ref>{{cite web|title=KFF Health News|url=https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/trump-project-2025-health-policy-abortion-medicaid-usaid/|publisher=KFF Health News|access-date=2025-11-15}}</ref>