Washington, D.C. – As GOP leadership tries to salvage their devastating budget bill, reporting indicates Republicans are likely to make their Medicaid cuts more extreme in an effort to appease GOP hardliners. Instead of standing up and rejecting any more cuts to Americans’ health care, so-called Republican moderates seem prepared to turn their backs on their constituents and accept deeper cuts in order to pass more tax cuts for billionaires and big corporations.
“House Republicans are preparing to increase their Medicaid cuts and rip health care away from even more working families and vulnerable Americans,” said Protect Our Care Chair Leslie Dach. “So-called moderate Republicans should walk away from this bill, which already strips health care away from nearly 14 million Americans. At a time when too many are struggling to make ends meet, Republicans seem dead set on protecting the wealth of billionaires and massive companies by slashing the health care and economic security of working families across our country.”
This budget bill will rip health care away from seniors, children, people fighting cancer, people with disabilities, and workers who don’t get insurance through their jobs. In addition to draconian Medicaid cuts, Republicans are raising premiums and out-of-pocket costs for tens of millions of people who buy coverage through the Affordable Care Act (ACA). These price hikes will force millions of middle-class families to lose their coverage altogether. Republicans are determined to rip away health care from millions of Americans in order to fund tax breaks for billionaires and big corporations.