***MEDIA ADVISORY FOR MONDAY, OCT. 6, 2025, AT 3:15 PM ET***
Washington, D.C. – On Monday, October 6, 2025, at 3:15 PM ET, U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor (D-FL) will join Protect Our Care and health care advocates to call on the GOP to put an end to their health care crisis and pass a budget that puts hardworking families over billionaires. Since taking power, Republicans and Donald Trump have launched an unrelenting assault on the nation’s health care system, and they are now holding the government hostage to continue policies that hike costs and rip away coverage from the American people.
The GOP gutted critical funding for rural hospitals and threw our entire health care system into chaos – all to fund tax breaks for billionaires and big corporations. Their policies worsen care and drive up costs for everyone. Republicans are so intent on hiking costs that they just shut down the federal government so they can rip away tax credits from working families. If they succeed in taking away these credits, premiums will more than double for over 20 million Americans who buy insurance on their own, and over four million Americans will lose their health insurance entirely.
Florida, where limited Medicaid eligibility drives almost five million Floridians – roughly 20 percent of the state’s population – to buy health care on their own, will be hit especially hard if the GOP successfully rips away health care tax credits from working families. Rep. Castor refuses to let the GOP strong-arm Congress into making everyday Floridians shoulder the massive premium increases brought on by disastrous Republican policies.
PRESS CALL
WHO:
U.S. Representative Kathy Castor (D-FL)
Anne Shoup Protect Our Care
Sue Gottesman, patient storyteller
WHAT: Press Call
WHEN: Monday, October 6, 2025, at 3:15 PM ET
WHERE: Virtual Press Conference