***MEDIA ADVISORY FOR TUESDAY, AUGUST 19 AT 11 AM ET***
Protect Our Care Releases New Report and Interactive Map on Nationwide Hospital Closures Resulting from the GOP Budget Bill
View Hospital Crisis Watch here.
Washington, D.C. – On Tuesday, August 19th at 11 AM ET, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy and American Mobilization Project will join Protect Our Care to announce plans to shine a light on nationwide hospital closures as a result of Donald Trump and Republicans’ budget bill. The bill makes the largest cut to health care in American history in order to fund tax breaks for the wealthy and big corporations. In addition to ripping coverage away from 15 million Americans and driving health care and premium costs up for middle- and low-income families, it will force hundreds of hospitals and care facilities across the country to cut services, lay off staff, or close their doors. People will have to travel further for care and face longer wait times in emergency rooms. On this call, Protect Our Care is relaunching Hospital Crisis Watch, an effort to track the hospitals, clinics, and nursing homes that cut services or shut down as a result of this Republican bill.
During the call, Protect Our Care will release a new report, with a foreword from Senator Murphy, on the devastating effects the GOP budget bill will have on hospitals and health care centers around the U.S. Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans are taking care from entire communities so they can give tax breaks to the wealthiest individuals and corporations, and Hospital Crisis Watch aims to expose the damage their Big, Ugly Bill is already doing across the country – hospital by hospital, community by community.
PRESS CALL:
WHO:
U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT)
Makunda Abdul-Mbacke MD, MPH, FACOG – OB/GYN in Axton, VA
Jessica Seawright, patient storyteller from Wisconsin
Leslie Dach, Chair, Protect Our Care
WHAT: Virtual Press Conference
WHERE: Register for the Zoom here
WHEN: Tuesday, August 19 at 11 AM ET