They’re graciously offering to hold on 75% premium increases…until after the midterms
Washington D.C — After passing the largest Medicaid cut in history to pay for billionaire tax breaks, Republicans in Congress are continuing to jeopardize access to health care for millions of Americans. Health care tax credits that help millions of Americans afford their health coverage will go away at the end of the year under the Republican Tax Law. If Republicans in Congress don’t act quickly, monthly health insurance payments could skyrocket by over 75% and leave over four million Americans without health care.
In order to save face, a small cadre of congressional Republicans including Congressman Tom Kean Jr. (NJ-07), Congressman Rob Bresnahan (PA-08), and Congressman Juan Ciscomani (AZ-06) have signed on to a bill to extend these health care tax credits for only one year. If these members were actually serious about lowering health care costs, they’d make these tax credits permanent and reverse their massive Medicaid cuts. Instead, they just want to delay 75% premium hikes…until after the midterms. 80% of Americans support extending these tax credits, yet the lead Republican on this bill still admitted that she wants to “reasonably phase out” these health care tax credits and that she doesn’t think we “need” them.
“Congressional Republicans voted to rip health coverage from millions of Americans. They don’t get brownie points for attempting to kick the can down the road on their own harmful and unpopular agenda because it’s convenient for them,” said Unrig Our Economy Campaign Director Leor Tal. “If Republicans in Congress were serious about protecting people’s care, they would vote to make these vital health care tax credits permanent and they wouldn’t have passed the largest cut to Medicaid in history to pay for tax breaks for billionaires. Congressional Republicans, stop playing games with our health care and protect these health care tax credits…permanently.”
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