Washington D.C — Nearly one year after Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks (IA-01) voted to cut Medicaid and allowed ACA tax credits to expire, she released two ads in an attempt to whitewash her actual record on health care. In one of the ads, Congresswoman Miller-Meeks states that, “nobody should go broke just because they get sick.” We couldn’t agree more! So, congresswoman, how do you explain your record of consistently raising health care costs on your constituents?
Just in case she needs a reminder on 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.”
“Congresswoman Miller-Meeks is absolutely right when she says that ‘nobody should go broke just because they get sick’. But she has voted to put Iowans in that exact situation,” said Unrig Our Economy Campaign Director Leor Tal. “This latest ad from Congresswoman Miller-Meeks is a lousy attempt to whitewash her own record and shift blame for the fact that she is responsible for tens of thousands of Iowans losing their health care. It’s shameful and her constituents can see right through this charade. It’s time for Republicans in Congress, like Congresswoman Miller-Meeks, to start standing up for their constituents’ health care.”
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Unrig Our Economy is a national campaign to fix the rules of our economy to make it work for working people. We know that when the middle class does well, all of us do well — which is why we’re fighting on behalf of working Americans and holding corporations, their wealthy executives, and the politicians who enable them accountable.