Rep. Courtney: Project 2025, Republican Study Committee Will Raise Health Care Costs for Americans

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, at a Committee on Education and the Workforce hearing, Rep. Joe Courtney (CT-02) called out dangerous policies proposed in Project 2025, which is covered in the former president’s fingertips, and by the Republican Study Committee to tax employer sponsored health insurance.

Doing so could raise taxes for up to 150 million Americans and steer Americans out of high-quality health plans and into unregulated plans with no consumer protections.

Even the Committee’s own Republican witnesses emphatically agreed with Rep. Courtney that placing a tax on employer sponsored health insurance is a bad for the American people. 

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“There is strong bipartisan support for maintaining the tax-exempt status of employer sponsored insurance. However, that is very much, very, very much at risk in terms of just the positioning of different forces, think tanks and other groups that really want to go at this.

“When we are talking about threats to employer sponsored insurance in 2024, [Project 2025 and the Republican Study Committee are] really the elephant in the room in terms of making sure that the foundational cornerstone that created employer sponsored insurance back during World War II remains intact,” Courtney said today.

As Rep. Courtney penned in a recent editorial piece in Roll Call, this is not the first time this harmful idea has reared its head – and it is not the first time Courtney has successfully led the charge to strike down similar proposals.

To read the policy proposal in Project 2025, click here and visit page 697.

To read the policy proposal in the Republican Study Committee, click here and visit page 40.
 

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