Protect Our Care Projected Images Holding Senators McConnell and Ernst Accountable for Dismissing Constituents’ Concerns About the Health Care Cuts in the GOP’s Big, Ugly Bill
Washington, D.C. – Yesterday, Protect Our Care projected images onto the Republican National Committee in D.C. calling out Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) for saying what Republicans are really thinking: They don’t care that their health care cuts will hurt people. Instead, people who lose Medicaid so the rich can get tax breaks will have to “get over it,” according to Mitch McConnell.
The comment, made yesterday to GOP colleagues, comes weeks after Joni Ernst’s “We’re all going to die” comment that went viral. These flagrant dismissals of concerned constituents make one thing clear: Republicans know their “Big, Ugly Bill” will strip health care from millions to fund tax cuts for the wealthy – and they don’t care that it will hurt people. The bill will rip health care from 16 million Americans by making the largest Medicaid cuts in history and dismantling the Affordable Care Act.
“These two Republican leaders have been exposed for spilling the truth about their megabill: they know it’ll hurt everyday Americans while giving tax breaks to the richest, and they don’t care,” said Protect Our Care President Brad Woodhouse. “Trump and these Republicans have no shame. You can’t make the largest health care cuts in history without taking care from children and people with disabilities, without kicking seniors out of nursing homes, and without raising costs and taking care from everyday Americans, and McConnell and Ernst just proved it. Instead of listening to the outrage pouring in from across the country and the political spectrum, Republicans are racing to pass this devastating bill and destabilize our health care system to put more money into the pockets of the ultra-wealthy, no matter how many lives it costs.”