Key Documents From Protect Our Care in April

📊Trackers

• Health Care Sabotage Tracker
• Hospital Crisis Watch
• Premium Disaster Watch

🚨REPORT: The Real Fraud: Trump Pardoned the Nation’s Biggest Health Care Fraudsters
📺VIDEO: Secretary Buttigieg Joins Health Advocate and Cancer Survivor Victoria Sylvester in Protect Our Care’s Fireside Chat

Medicaid Awareness Month

🚨REPORT: GOP Cuts Have Blown Up American Hospitals and Put Over 800 Facilities on the Verge of Collapse

April marked the ninth annual Medicaid Awareness Month, as Donald Trump and Republicans face mounting backlash for the largest cuts to health care in history and the growing crisis those cuts have unleashed in communities across the country. Medicaid is popular across the country, with strong support from Democrats, Republicans, and independents alike, and poll after poll shows voters overwhelmingly oppose cuts and wouldn’t support a lawmaker who voted to cut Medicaid. But instead of listening to their constituents, Republicans slashed $1 trillion to fund tax breaks for billionaires and big corporations – putting seniors in nursing homes, moms, families, and disabled children dead last.

• Fact Sheet: People of Color Face Coverage Loss and Higher Costs Thanks to Republicans Gutting Medicaid
• Fact Sheet: The Health of Women, Moms, and People of Color Is Deteriorating — All Thanks to Trump and Republicans Gutting Medicaid 
• Fact Sheet: Americans with Disabilities Have Been Left Behind by Republican Cuts to Medicaid
• Fact Sheet: Republicans Cut Seniors’ Medicaid Coverage to Pad Billionaires’ Pockets

📺PRESS CALL: “Every Mom Deserves To Come Home Safe”: Sen. Booker, Rep. Underwood, Chiquita Brooks-LaSure Lead Urgent Call for Momnibus During Black Maternal Health Week

• Fact Sheet: Republicans Are Ripping Care from Moms and Exacerbating the Nation’s Maternal Health Crisis This Black Maternal Health Week

April 15 was Tax Day. After Republicans prioritized tax breaks for billionaires and big corporations, families are being crushed under the weight of skyrocketing premiums and out-of-pocket costs.

• Fact Sheet: This Tax Season, Working Americans Were Slapped With Premium Hikes to Bankroll Huge Tax Breaks for Billionaires and Corporations

Protect Our Care held events across the country with hospital leaders, providers, and advocates to raise the alarm after Republicans gutted our health care to fund tax breaks for billionaires and big corporations.

• In The States: Across the Country, Providers Warn GOP Health Care Cuts Push Providers to the Brink, Put Lives At Risk

Public Health

🚨REPORT: RFK Jr. vs. Public Health
📺PRESS EVENT: As RFK Jr. Finally Faces Congress, Doctors Caucus Members & Public Health Advocates Spotlight the Failing Trump-Kennedy Report Card on Public Health

April saw HHS Secretary RFK Jr. in a hearing blitz with seven Congressional Committees in as many days. During the hearings, he lied through his teeth and deflected blame for his dangerous actions that have left Americans sicker as health care costs skyrocket. 

• Lowlights: Worst Moments from RFK Jr.’s First Two of Seven Congressional Hearings
• Statement: RFK Jr. Leans on Lies to Muddle Through Latest Congressional Hearing
• Hearing Lowlights: RFK Jr. Repeats Lies to Project His Failures Onto Others
• Statement: RFK Jr.’s Pathologically Dishonest Hearingpalooza Performance Underscores Why He Must Resign or Be Removed
• “Insulting,” “Disastrous,” “Bonkers,” “Promoted Misinformation”: Reviews Are In On RFK Jr.’s Resignation-Worthy Hearings Performance

🚨REPORT: RFK Jr.’s NIH Is $1 Billion Behind on Critical Medical Research Spending