***MEDIA ADVISORY FOR APRIL 15-17, 2026***
This week, Protect Our Care is holding events in Michigan, New York, and North Carolina featuring hospital leaders, health care advocates, and lawmakers to hold Trump and congressional Republicans accountable for gutting $1 trillion from Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, all to bankroll tax breaks for billionaires and big corporations. As a result, the ensuing health care crisis has put over 800 hospitals, nursing homes, maternity wards, and other critical providers in jeopardy, causing them to shutter completely, cut vital services families rely on, or be at risk of both.
The fallout has put the American health care system on life support. Rural Americans are bracing for provider closures to force them to travel hours for life-or-death care. Expectant mothers are being thrown into maternity care deserts that’ll force them to give birth in overcrowded and underfunded emergency rooms, putting their lives and their babies’ lives at risk. Just this February, 28,000 health care workers have lost their jobs, and more than 150,000 health care jobs are at risk nationwide — all while costs are skyrocketing for everyone, everywhere. Come November, voters will hold Trump and congressional Republicans to account at the ballot box for orchestrating this madness to make the rich richer.
NORTH CAROLINA
WHO:
North Carolina Senator Natalie Murdock (NC-20)
North Carolina Representative Zack Hawkins (NC-31)
Vanessa Watson, Protect Our Care North Carolina
Medicaid Family Storyteller
WHEN: Wednesday, April 15 at 4 PM ET
WHERE: Herndon Park, 511 Scott King Rd., Durham, NC (Near Carolina House)
NEW YORK
WHO:
Dr. Eve Krief
Will Bailey, NY Communities for Change
Chris Duyos, Protect Our Care New York
WHEN: Thursday, April 16 at 11 AM ET
WHERE: Nassau University Medical Center, 2201 Hempstead Tpke, East Meadow, NY 11554
MICHIGAN
WHO:
JJ Hodshire, CEO of Hillsdale Hospital
Adam Carlson, Senior Vice President, Advocacy, Michigan Health & Hospital Association
Dianne Byrum, Protect Our Care Michigan
WHEN: Friday, April 17 at 11 AM ET
WHERE: Hillsdale Hospital, 168 S Howell St, Hillsdale, MI 49242