***MEDIA ADVISORY FOR MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2024***
Care Force One Rolls into Minnesota on Day One as it Travels Across 17+ States, Makes Over 50 Stops, and Covers Nearly 12,000 Miles
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Minnesota — On day one of Protect Our Care’s “Lower Costs, Better Care” bus tour, Attorney General Keith Ellison and Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan will join health care advocates and Protect Our Care for events in Duluth and St. Paul to make sure Minnesotans understand how the Biden-Harris administration and Democrats in Congress worked to lower health care costs for Americans. By passing the Inflation Reduction Act, they provided relief to those who purchase insurance on their own, capped the monthly cost of insulin, and gave Medicare the power to negotiate drug prices. While we celebrate this progress, Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans are fighting to go backwards, raise costs, take away protections for pre-existing conditions, and leave millions of people without critical coverage. MAGA Republicans want us to go back to the days when insurance companies made the rules and could deny people coverage.
During each stop, national and local elected officials, health care advocates, and storytellers are sounding the alarm about the threat Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans pose to American health care and celebrating the historic steps the Biden-Harris administration has taken to provide working families the quality, affordable care they need to stay healthy. This week, the tour continues in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Over six weeks, Care Force One will travel to more than 17 states, make more than 50 stops, and travel nearly 12,000 miles.
DULUTH, MINNESOTA:
WHO:
Attorney General Keith Ellison
State Senator Jennifer McEwen
State Representative Liish Kozlowski
Pat McKone, health care advocate
Jennifer Schultz, health care economist and former State Representative
Laura Packard, cancer survivor and health care advocate
WHERE: Bayfront Festival Park, 350 Harbor Dr, Duluth, MN 55802
WHEN: Monday, September 23, 2024 at 9 AM CT / 10 AM ET
ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA:
WHO:
Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan
State Senator Lindsey Port
Dr. Kelly Morrison, OB-GYN and former State Senator
Quinn Nystrom, insulin affordability and health care advocate
Patsy Stinchfield, RN, retired nurse and health care advocate
Kathleen Oganovich, senior health care storyteller
Laura Packard, cancer survivor and health care advocate
WHERE: Minnesota State Capitol, 75 Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard, St Paul, MN 55155
WHEN: Monday, September 23, 2024 at 3 PM CT / 4 PM ET