After watching the Trump administration and House GOP work to gut health care since January, it’s painfully clear:
They truly don’t care if you get sick.
House Democrats are fighting to protect Americans’ access to affordable health care.
Trump’s Big, Ugly Law Will Kick Millions of People off of Their Health Care
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates that 17 million Americans could lose access to their health care because of the Big, Ugly Law – what Trump called his “Big, Beautiful Bill”.
Hospitals are at risk of closing, nursing homes could shut down, and health care costs will rise for millions more people.
Here in Washington state these Medicaid cuts impact at least 194,000 on Apple Health – the name of our state’s Medicaid program – and our state would lose $2 billion in Medicaid funding over the next four years. The Washington State Nurses Association is already warning that these cuts will devastate our state’s health care system. Fourteen of our state’s rural hospitals are at risk of closure.
This law also included policies that will mean half a trillion dollars in Medicare cuts.
And they raised taxes for getting health care insurance through the Affordable Care Act. Twenty-four million people are enrolled in the Marketplaces created under the Affordable Care Act.
They Also “Have A Plan” for More Medicare Cuts, Too
They’ve also said the quiet part out loud: Just like Donald Trump called on Republicans in Congress to do, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson confirmed that Republicans “have a plan” to cut Medicare.
House Republicans Refuse to Extend Affordable Care Act Tax Credits That Help More Than 22 Millions Americans Afford Coverage
Now that they created a health care insurance crisis, House Republicans left Washington D.C. with no plans to return before October, abandoning any plans to address the problem they created. The Kaiser Family Foundation recently found that health care premiums could rise by 76 percent due to Republicans’ inaction.
Here in Washington State, health care premiums on plans purchased through the Affordable Care Act are expected to rise 21 percent.
We Must Repeal the Republicans’ Big Ugly Law: How I Am Working to Undo the Damage of the GOP Health Care Cuts and Make Health Care More Affordable
Everyone, regardless of income, employment or citizenship status, should have affordable high-quality health care.
That’s why we need, first, to repeal this Big Ugly Law and reverse the Republicans’ extreme cuts. That means restoring funding for Medicaid and Medicare, and returning tax credits for affordable health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, so millions of Americans don’t lose their health care or risk paying more if they can keep their health care at all.
I am a cosponsor of legislation to permanently lower health care costs by expanding these popular tax credits for people who get their health care through the Affordable Care Act.
I will keep standing up to cuts to health care and fighting to ensure that everyone has access to health care.
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