Washington D.C — On Sunday, Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks (IA-01) sent an email blast to her constituents falsely portraying herself as a champion of rural health care access – a desperate attempt to rewrite her actual record of ripping health coverage away from Iowa families and slashing funding rural hospitals rely on.
No matter what spin she puts on it, Congresswoman Miller-Meeks voted to cut Medicaid and allowed ACA tax credits to expire, increasing health care costs and putting coverage at risk for tens of thousands of Iowans. And the fund she’s touting won’t make up for the massive cuts she’s made to Medicaid that rural health care providers rely on. Her latest rewrite is another desperate attempt to gloss over a record that has consistently put Iowans’ health care at risk.
Just in case she needs a reminder of her actual health care record, Congresswoman Miller-Meeks:
- Allowed ACA tax credits to expire, sending premiums skyrocketing for 24,000 of her constituents.
- Voted to cut Medicaid, leaving 68,000 Iowans without basic health care.
- Forced health care service reductions and closures across rural Iowa due to Medicaid cuts.
- Voted against capping the cost of insulin and allowing Medicare to negotiate lower drug prices, and, on the same day, accepted campaign donations from a major pharmaceutical company.
- Rented a Capitol Hill apartment from two pharmaceutical industry lobbyists using taxpayer money.
- Called efforts to make ACA tax credits that help lower health care costs permanent an “unreasonable demand.”
“No family should be forced to go without the care they need. Which is why it is alarming that Congresswoman Miller-Meeks voted to put Iowans in that exact situation,” said Unrig Our Economy Campaign Director Leor Tal. “Her latest whitewash is a desperate attempt to distract from a record that has made health care less affordable for the very communities she claims to care for. Iowa families, who are paying more for health care thanks to Congresswoman Miller-Meeks, see through the rhetoric. Rather than misleading Iowans about her record, Congresswoman Miller-Meeks should vote to repeal her health care cuts and protect the health care rural Iowans rely on.”
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