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:
Rachel Rozner, owns Elden Street Teashop in Reston, Virginia. Five of her seven employees purchase their own insurance on the ACA marketplace, and she worries about what will happen if Republicans in Congress succeed in ripping health insurance tax credits away from working people like her employees.
“A lot of people just can’t afford their own plan,” she told the Washington Post. “For me, in starting this business, it was a game changer.”
Read more about Rachel in the Washington Post.
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.