***MEDIA ADVISORY FOR WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 AT 12:30 PM ET***
New York – On Wednesday, September 11th at 12:30 PM, U.S. Representative Tim Kennedy (D-NY-26) and New York advocates will join Protect Our Care for a virtual press conference to call out MAGA Republicans’ threats to health care and their efforts to eliminate and rollback policies championed by the Biden-Harris administration and Congressional Democrats that have lowered prescription drug costs and increased access to quality, affordable health care in the state. The event will focus on the need to protect the Affordable Care Act and provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act.
Thanks to the Biden-Harris administration and Democrats in Congress, more Americans than ever before have health insurance, the cost of insulin is capped at $35 dollars, seniors are protected from drug company price hikes, and seniors’ prescription drug costs will be capped at $2,000 dollars per year starting next year. Last month, for the first time in history, Medicare negotiated prescription drug prices with pharmaceutical companies to lower costs for seniors who take certain drugs. Already, more than 110,000 eligible New Yorkers are saving an average of $361 on monthly health insurance premiums thanks to the IRA. Meanwhile, Trump has repeatedly vowed to repeal the Affordable Care Act and the Inflation Reduction Act, which have strengthened health care and lowered costs. Project 2025, the dangerous GOP plan for a second Trump presidency, promises to slash funding for Medicare and Medicaid, expand junk health insurance plans, ban Medicare from negotiating for lower drug prices, and strip away remaining reproductive rights.
WHO:
U.S. Representative Tim Kennedy (D-NY-26)
Dr. Dara Kass, former regional Director at the US Department of Health and Human Services
Christina Otera, Promesa Inc, entitlements coordinator and 1199SEIU advocate
WHAT: Virtual Press Conference
WHERE: Register to join the Zoom event (Registration required)
WHEN: Wednesday, September 11 at 12:30 PM ET
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