While Democrats were on Capitol Hill fighting to protect working families’ health care yesterday, Republicans were nowhere to be found. They fled Washington and shut down the government so they could rip away tax relief for working families struggling to pay for health insurance premiums. The dismal state of American health care today and the skyrocketing premiums families face are a direct result of GOP policy—taking $1 trillion from Medicaid to give tax breaks to the ultra-wealthy, hiking premiums and prescription drugs costs, and shutting down nursing homes and rural hospitals.
The American people see the GOP health care failure every time they sit in an overcrowded hospital waiting room, receive a premium increase letter from their insurance company, or have to drive hours to receive life-saving care at the nearest hospital. Americans won’t soon forget that Republicans put billionaires over health care for working people.
The Bulwark: The Republican Shutdown Argument is a Giant Lie
NPR: Poll: Republicans Get More of the Blame Than Democrats for a Potential Shutdown
The Hill: Poll: Republicans Get More of the Blame Than Democrats for a Potential Shutdown
Newsweek: Mike Johnson Corrected Over Government Shutdown Claims Live on Air
KFF Health News: ACA Marketplace Premium Payments Would More Than Double on Average Next Year if Enhanced Premium Tax Credits Expire
NOTUS: ‘Don’t Fly to Cancun’: House Republicans Stay Out of Sight — And Out of Washington — During the Shutdown
Wall Street Journal: The Health Insurance Subsidies at the Center of the Government Shutdown Fight
New York Times: Opinion: Government Shutdown: Democrats Did the Smart Thing
The Hill: Opinion: The Shutdown Showdown Is Another Dangerous Trump Power Play
STAT: Patients Set to Lose Hospital Care at Home if Government Funding Isn’t Extended
New York Times: The Real Stakes of the Shutdown
New York Times: These 6 Charts Explain Why the Government Shut Down
USA Today: Opinion: Democrats want to prevent a shutdown. Republicans want to blame them for one
13 KOLD: Tucson Father With Disabled Daughter Discusses Impact of Government Shutdown
Bloomberg: Opinion: This Shutdown Fight Has Life-or-Death Consequences
ABC6: Ohio Nurses Association slams Trump and GOP for shutdown, warns of healthcare impact