Washington, DC – Today, Unrig Our Economy launched a new, six-figure ad buy focused on rising health care costs for New Jersey veterans and families. The ad features Ed, a Marine veteran from Flemington, NJ. Ed outlines how the Republican Tax Law, which Congressman Tom Kean Jr. (NJ-07) voted for, is raising costs for veterans and could lead to 300,000 New Jerseyans losing their health care. The ad notes that the Republican Tax Law raised health care costs for veterans while enacting historic cuts to Medicaid and SNAP to give tax breaks to billionaires.
“Ed shares how when he returned home from his lifelong dream of serving as a Marine, he just wanted fairness – not special treatment. But cuts to health care are creating an uneven playing field and raising costs for New Jersey veterans along with hundreds of thousands of others,” said Unrig Our Economy Campaign Director Leor Tal. “Republicans in Congress continue to support health care cuts and millions of people are beginning to feel the impact of the Republican Tax Law that Congressman Kean Jr. voted to pass. Thanks to this law, countless veterans like Ed will be left without basic, affordable health care that they deserve.”
You can watch the new ad here.
Ad transcript:
Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to be a Marine.
I joined as soon as I could and served eleven years.
When I came home, I didn’t expect special treatment – just fairness.
Now, I see lawmakers in Washington giving tax breaks to billionaires and corporations, while people that I served with are forced to make tough choices just to get by.
Tom Kean Jr. voted for a law that would raise health care costs for New Jersey families and veterans.
Higher health care costs make everything more difficult.
To learn more about the campaign, visit UnrigOurEconomy.com or contact press@unrigoureconomy.com.
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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.