Washington, DC – Sixteen years after the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a million Latinos are at risk of losing their health care coverage because of Trump and congressional Republicans’ harmful cuts. Unrig Our Economy and Americans for Tax Fairness’ new joint report (English and Spanish) details how Republicans are taking health care away from Latinos while delivering massive tax breaks to the same corporations raising health care costs.
Since taking power, Trump and Republicans in Congress prioritized tax breaks for billionaires over health care for working Americans, letting ACA tax credits expire and voting for historic cuts to health care funding. These policies have disproportionately harmed Latinos in the U.S., raising their costs and putting a million at risk of losing coverage all together – all while Republicans in Congress delivered lower taxes for health care companies and CEOs.
“Most people get flowers or chocolate for anniversaries, congressional Republicans gave working families higher health insurance premiums,” said Leor Tal, Unrig Our Economy’s Campaign Director. “Working people–including a million Latinos–are getting crushed by the Republican health care crisis. The only people with something to celebrate today are the billionaires who got tax breaks, paid for by taking away healthcare from hard-working Americans.”
“Despite ample warning last year, Donald Trump’s Republican Party let the ACA enhanced premium tax credits expire and raised healthcare costs for millions. Now on the anniversary of the ACA, when we should be celebrating, Latino families face massively higher healthcare costs even as big healthcare companies and their well-paid CEOs enjoy huge tax cuts,” said David Kass, ATF’s executive director. “We need to prioritize reversing those decisions by restoring the premium tax credits that made buying insurance possible for millions of families and fund it by revoking tax cuts for the nation’s biggest corporations and wealthiest households.”
Read Unrig Our Economy and Americans for Tax Fairness’ new report on Latino health care coverage in English and Spanish.
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About Unrig Our Economy
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.
About Americans for Tax Fairness
Americans for Tax Fairness (ATF) is a diverse coalition of more than 420 national, state and local endorsing organizations united in support of a fair tax system that raises revenue from the wealthy and big corporations to support investments that build our economy for all.