Republicans have shut down the government because they want to keep destroying our health care. Republicans don’t care that people are already struggling to get by and forced to choose between paying for life-saving medications and putting food on the table. Instead, the GOP is gutting tax credits for millions of hardworking families, ripping away critical funding from rural hospitals, and throwing the entire health care system into chaos just to pay for tax breaks for billionaires. Their policies will worsen care and drive up costs for everyone.
Here is just one story of the everyday Americans caught in the crosshairs of the GOP health care crisis:
Shana Verstegen and her husband, both fitness trainers for a small business in Wisconsin, purchase health insurance on the ACA marketplace for themselves and their two young sons.
“Everything’s getting more expensive now,” Shana told the BBC. If Republicans end the ACA tax credits they rely on to afford insurance, she said, “this would be another major hit for our family.” Just thinking about the possibility makes Shana “sick to her stomach.”
Read more about Shana and her family from the BBC.
Democrats have made clear that they are ready to vote for bipartisan budgets that stop this pain, but won’t be complicit in hurting the American people. Every single day that Republicans refuse to negotiate a path forward, Protect Our Care will shine a light on the real lives being harmed by this reckless crusade led by Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress. Read Protect Our Care’s report on Republicans’ assault on health care here.