Rebecca Bennett Headlines Event in Westfield, New Jersey on Friday as Care Force One Travels Across 15+ States, Makes Over 35 Stops, and Covers Nearly 8,000 Miles
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Westfield, New Jersey — On day five of Protect Our Care’s “Sick of It! Fix Health Care Now” bus tour, Rebecca Bennett will join storytellers and health care advocates for an event in Westfield, New Jersey, calling out Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress for taking a wrecking ball to our health care system. Across the country, hard-working families are fed up with the growing health care crisis after Trump and Republicans like Rep. Tom Kean slashed more than $1 trillion from Medicaid and gutted Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax credits to bankroll tax breaks for billionaires and big corporations.
Health care affordability has become the defining issue leading up to the November elections. Recent polling from Navigator and KFF found that the cost of health care is the top concern for families going into November’s midterms, with over half of voters considering it extremely important for candidates to discuss health care costs.
Care Force One is making nearly 40 stops across four weeks, taking the fight directly to communities where families are hit hardest by rising health care costs and coverage losses. Every stop will feature real stories of people impacted by Republican cuts to health care, and speakers will call on lawmakers to enact commonsense health care solutions, including restoring tax credits to lower insurance premiums, reversing devastating Medicaid cuts, expanding Medicare’s power to negotiate lower prices for more drugs and extending those lower prices to all Americans with insurance, penalizing drug companies that raise prices faster than inflation, and protecting patients from high costs by extending the annual $2,000 out-of-pocket cap and the $35 insulin co-pay cap to people with private coverage. Next week, the tour continues in Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, and Ohio.
WESTFIELD, NEW JERSEY:
WHO:
Leslie Dach, Executive Chair of Protect Our Care
Rebecca Bennett, Health Care Executive
Shaughnessy Naughton, 314 Action President
Theresa Grimm, Medicaid recipient
Laura Packard, cancer survivor and health care advocate
WHERE: Westfield Train Station, 300 South Ave W, Westfield, NJ 07090
WHEN: Friday, October 09, 2026 at 10:30 AM ET