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Fact Sheet: Republicans Are Working to Gut Medicaid, a Lifeline for People With Mental Health Conditions and Opioid Addiction

This April marks the eighth annual Medicaid Awareness Month. Medicaid is the largest health insurance program in the country, providing health care for over 70 million Americans. About 15 million of those with Medicaid as their insurer experience a mental health condition and roughly 1 million enrollees receive treatment for an opioid addiction. 

Despite its importance to millions of Americans, Trump and Republicans in Congress are determined to gut Medicaid in order to give billionaires and big corporations another tax cut, even if it means dismantling the health care they rely on. Congressional Republicans are pressing forward with their budget, which will slash $880 billion from Medicaid, putting the health care of tens of millions of Americans at risk. A recent report by the Joint Economic Committee found that the cuts to Medicaid, proposed by Republicans, would significantly harm mitigation efforts to stop the opioid epidemic. Defunding Medicaid means thousands of people would lose access to addiction treatment. Recent polling found there is broad opposition across party lines to any cuts to Medicaid, with 67 percent saying Congress should increase spending on Medicaid or keep it about the same.

During Medicaid Awareness Month, Protect Our Care is continuing its “Hands Off Medicaid” campaign with theme weeks to underscore the importance of Medicaid across the country. Alongside partners, lawmakers, and other advocates, Protect Our Care is working to defend Medicaid from the Republican-led plan to slash funding to pay for another round of tax cuts for the wealthy and big corporations. 

By The Numbers

  • More Than 1 in 3 Nonelderly Adult Medicaid Enrollees Have a Mental Health Condition. Many of these enrollees experience severe symptoms and some experience overlapping mental illnesses which can complicate treatment and impact daily functioning.
  • Adults on Medicaid With Mental Health Conditions Receive Treatment for Their Condition at Rates That Are the Same or Higher Than Those With Private Insurance or Those Who Are Uninsured. In 2023, 59 percent of adults with a mental health condition received treatment through Medicaid compared to 55 percent of privately insured individuals and 37 percent of those who are uninsured.
  • 2.3 Million People With Serious Mental Health Conditions Are Covered by Medicaid. These conditions include bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and other psychotic disorders. 
  • Two-Thirds of Medicaid Enrollees With a Mental Health Condition Have at Least One Other Chronic Condition. Without Medicaid coverage, many people with comorbidities would be unable to afford care for both a mental health condition and chronic physical disease or illness.
  • Medicaid Expansion Allows 600,000 to Receive Addiction Care. Roughly 1 million Medicaid enrollees depend on the program for addiction care, with more than 60 percent gaining coverage through Medicaid expansion.
  • Without Medicaid, Those With Opioid Addictions Would Have to Choose Between Affording Treatment or Putting Food on the Table. Medicaid spends anywhere from $5,874 to $15,183 per patient that receives opioid treatment. Cutting Medicaid means thousands of people will lose access to addiction treatment and would go uninsured, not replacing their loss of coverage with private insurers.

Americans with Mental Health Conditions Rely on Medicaid for Care. Nearly 50 million Americans struggle with a mental health problem. Of those, about 15 million are on Medicaid, making up about 21 percent of all enrollees, including 2.3 million with a serious mental health condition such as bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, or other psychotic disorders. People with Medicaid for insurance receive care for their mental health conditions at rates higher or similar to private insurers and much higher rates than those who are uninsured. In 2023, 59 percent of adults with a mental health condition received treatment through Medicaid compared to 55 percent of privately insured individuals and 37 percent of those who are uninsured.

Medicaid Provides Crucial Benefits To Children With Autism. Medicaid disproportionately serves children with autism: 5 percent of children aged 3 to 17 with Medicaid and CHIP have autism or autism spectrum disorder, while 2 percent of children with private insurance have autism. Autism is considered a disability under Medicaid allowing individuals with autism to qualify for care through Medicaid. Medicaid covers home and community based services that allow people with autism to participate in their communities. Health coverage is especially important for this population with 97 percent of children with public coverage reporting a coexisting disability, such as a learning disability, developmental delay, speech disorder, or other mental health conditions. Medicaid provides critical funding for schools to get equipment, services, and personnel that students with Individualized Education Plans require to succeed. Medicaid funding ensures schools can provide the wide range of services needed to educate students with disabilities and allows them to comply with Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) requirements despite strained school budgets.

Medicaid Is Essential To Combat America’s Youth Mental Health Crisis. Nearly 1 in 5 children in the United States struggle with a mental, emotional, developmental, or behavioral disorder. Medicaid provides 31 million children with the help that they need by requiring states to cover mental health screenings as part of the EPSDT benefit. When asked why they missed class, 16 percent of high school students cited anxiety, and another 12 percent listed sadness and depression, according to a fall 2023 survey. Medicaid is supporting efforts to provide mental health support and helping them show up to school feeling their best.

Mental Health is a Comorbidity For 10 Million Medicaid Enrollees. Comorbidity is when an individual has more than one chronic illness or condition. People with a mental health problem are twice as likely to have comorbidity than those without a diagnosed condition. The most common chronic condition that appears alongside mental illness is substance use disorder. 1 in 4 Medicaid enrollees diagnosed with a mental health condition are also diagnosed with substance use disorder. Chronic physical conditions also commonly occur alongside mental health issues and are reported together in 20 to 70 percent of cases. Anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia are linked to 2 out of 3 chronic physical disorders. Without Medicaid coverage, many people with comorbidities would be unable to afford care for both a mental health condition and chronic physical disease or illness. Because of this, patients without coverage  opt for relief from a chronic physical illness or conditions accompanied by chronic pain, while forgoing treatment for their mental illnesses. 

Medicaid is the Largest Payer for Addiction Treatment in the United States.  Roughly 1 million Medicaid enrollees depend on the program for addiction care, with more than 60 percent gaining coverage through Medicaid expansion. Medicaid covers both counseling and service based appointments, as well as life-saving medications such as Naloxone, a medication that reverses opioid overdoses, and other addiction treatment medications. Medicaid enrollees with substance use disorder who received a treatment medication had bills that were 30 percent lower than those who foregone treatment. Studies have shown that for every $1 invested in Methadone, a treatment for opioid addiction, there is a health care savings of up to $4 to $5. Cutting Medicaid means thousands of people will lose access to addiction treatment and would go uninsured, not replacing their loss of coverage with private insurers. Hospitals will also face financial consequences with cuts to Medicaid. Without Medicaid, in 2021 hospitals would have lost $2.4 billion in inpatient treatments of opioid use disorder.  

Medicaid Provides Prevention and Intervention Programs to Stop Early Development of Substance Use Disorders. Medicaid’s Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic and Treatment (EPSDT) program provides prevention and intervention of substance use disorders in adolescence. 74 percent of people with substance use disorder who received treatment admitted to starting use at age 17 or younger. EPSDT encourages mental and behavioral health and substance use treatment to be available in communities, limiting the worsening of these diseases into more complex diagnoses. 

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FACT CHECK: Trump’s Drug Pricing Executive Order Is A Giveaway To Big Drug Companies And A Ripoff For Seniors

On Tuesday, after months of relentless lobbying and schmoozing from pharmaceutical executives at Mar-a-Lago, President Trump signed an executive order that will pad the pockets of big drug companies and raise seniors’ drug prices. His executive order sells out seniors, goes back on his promises to lower drug costs, and hands pharmaceutical companies exactly what they want. While big drug companies can afford to lose $1 trillion in revenue over a decade and still remain the most profitable industry in the world, seniors cannot afford President Trump’s drug price hikes. The reality of Trump’s executive order directly contradicts numerous headlines published this week. Here’s the truth about President Trump’s latest executive order: 

The Executive Order Is A Huge Giveaway To Big Drug Companies:

  • The executive order aims to delay Medicare from negotiating lower prices for drugs that make up 58 percent of the market, including high-cost lifesaving drugs such as cancer treatments.
  • Delaying Medicare from negotiating lower prices for small molecule drugs for an additional four years is a top lobbying priority of big drug companies, and will cost seniors and taxpayers billions. Voters across all political parties want Congress to expand Medicare negotiation to more drugs on a faster timeline. 
  • The executive order is aimed at helping drug companies escape negotiations and continue to pad their multibillion dollar profits, long after they’ve recouped their research and development costs.
  • If this policy was a part of the original Inflation Reduction Act, seniors would not be able to expect savings on more than half of the drugs that have been selected for lower, negotiated prices. The lower prices on these drugs are expected to save seniors $1.5 billion and taxpayers $6 billion in the first year alone. If this giveaway to pharma is made law, it will cost seniors and taxpayers billions.
  • The executive order is a culmination of nearly $1 billion spent on lobbying by pharmaceutical companies since 2022 in an effort to weaken the Inflation Reduction Act’s measures to lower drug prices.

The Executive Order Does Nothing To Lower Drug Prices:

  • The executive order is nothing but a distraction from Republican efforts to rip away health coverage and hike health care costs while handing out tax breaks to corporations.
  • Instead of going after high drug prices, the policy areas outlined in the executive order harken back to Trump’s failed attempts to lower drug prices in his first term. They largely focus on addressing the role of middlemen like pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), hospitals, and 340B providers, which will do nothing to limit drug companies’ ability to set high drug prices. 
  • The executive order also relies on importing drugs with lower prices from foreign countries, which Trump started in his first term and has yet to deliver lower cost drugs to patients. 
  • The executive order encourages the development of generic and biosimilar drugs to lower drug prices through competition, but weeks before the executive order was issued, the administration closed the FDA office tasked with accelerating generic drug approvals, which is already slowing drug development. The development of new drugs is also hampered by the Trump administration’s reckless and damaging cuts to the National Institutes of Health, whose funding has supported the development of 99 percent of new drugs released in the last decade.

Trump Has Already Taken Many Actions This Term To Increase Americans’ Drug Prices:

  • Trump is trying to hand out massive tax breaks to big drug companies.
  • Trump eliminated the FDA office tasked with speeding approvals of cheaper generic drugs.
  • Trump eliminated a Biden-era program that would allow seniors to purchase generic drugs for just $2.
  • Trump is also trying to keep affordable drugs out of the hands of patients by revoking a Biden-era policy to require Medicare coverage for anti-obesity drugs. 
  • Trump plans to gut discretionary funding for the implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act, a law that is lowering drug costs for people with Medicare and cracks down on drug companies’ price gouging.
  • Trump’s current plans to add massive tariffs to drugs and drug ingredients imported from abroad will increase drug costs for Americans and lead to drug shortages. 

In His First Term, Trump Cut Drug Companies’ Taxes And Achieved Nothing To Lower Drug Costs:

  • President Trump’s “efforts” to lower drug costs were nothing more than smoke and mirrors while drug prices skyrocketed during his first term. 
  • Trump cut drug companies’ rate by 40 percent and provided incentives for them to move their profits abroad. 
  • During his first term, Trump was full of populist rhetoric and splashy media announcements, but all of his major drug pricing proposals were total failures: 
    • Trump failed to implement the state-sponsored prescription drug importation plan he proposed (which was so cumbersome it wouldn’t have provided timely relief to those who need it);
    • Trump failed to implement his Medicare Part B international reference pricing plan (it was so poorly conceived it was stopped in court); and 
    • Trump’s reforms to the Medicare Part D rebate system never went into effect (they were a giveaway to drug companies and would have resulted in huge Medicare premium increases and increased government spending). 
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“An Ounce of Prevention Is Worth a Pound of Cure”: Minnesota AG Keith Ellison, American Public Health Association, Supreme Court Expert Join Protect Our Care to Discuss SCOTUS Oral Arguments in Braidwood Case

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Washington, D.C. — Today, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, Executive Director of the American Public Health Association Georges Benjamin, and experienced Supreme Court and Appellate lawyer Andrew Pincus joined Protect Our Care for a virtual press conference to discuss the upcoming Supreme Court oral arguments in Kennedy, et al. v. Braidwood and the threats to American health care posed by the case. 

Far-right extremists are urging the Supreme Court to invalidate a key portion of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that requires insurers to cover lifesaving preventive services for free. Eliminating patient fees for these lifesaving screenings and services has transformed how preventive care is delivered, saved countless lives, improved health outcomes, reduced disparities in care, and cut consumer health care costs. Read more about the case here. 

“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” said Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison. “Prevention means families will have their loved ones with them longer and be able to enjoy greater health and greater experiences with each other. The plaintiffs are willing to destroy health care for everybody. Legally, they’re on weak grounds, but also on moral grounds, trying to dictate how people’s lives are lived at the end of the day.”

“We’ve had success in increased use of preventive health services since the Affordable Care Act was passed,” said Georges Benjamin, Executive Director of the American Public Health Association. “Should the Supreme Court not agree with our perspective on this, it means more preventable deaths at even a higher cost to Americans. Every American should be appalled at any attempt to remove it.”

“If the Supreme Court sides with the plaintiffs, the covered recommendations would be frozen as of the date that the ACA was enacted,” said Andrew Pincus, an experienced Supreme Court and Appellate Lawyer. “All of the new recommendations that have been adopted in the last 15 years would no longer have to be covered cost-free. This would be a tremendous loss for America, and a tremendous increase in overall health care costs, because it means terrible diseases are not going to be detected, and either people will have to be treated at greater cost, or they will die.”

”Free preventive care services are a lifeline that Americans cannot afford to lose,” said Leslie Dach, Chair of Protect Our Care. “This lawsuit is just the latest in a long line of targeted attacks designed to rip away affordable health care, and it’s everyday Americans who will pay the price. Unfortunately, the threat doesn’t stop with the Supreme Court. Given the Trump administration’s ongoing attacks on health care, we must remain vigilant to ensure access to science-backed preventative services are protected.”

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REVEALED: Trump’s Drug Price Order Is Nothing But A Give Away To Big Drug Companies

Last night, the Trump administration released a new Executive Order claiming it would lower drug prices. 

In the light of day, it’s clear the order is nothing but a bunch of vague promises coupled with one real action: a plan to RAISE the prices patients pay for prescription drugs by delaying the negotiation of lower prices even longer on some of the most typical drugs people rely on.

Take a look for yourself. 

REUTERS: “Revamping a law that allows Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices, seeking to introduce a change the pharmaceutical industry has lobbied for. Drugmakers have been pushing to delay the timeline under which medications become eligible for price negotiations by four years for small molecule drugs, which are primarily pills and account for most medicines.”

NEW YORK TIMES: “The policies were more modest than proposals to reduce drug prices that Mr. Trump offered in his first term. And one of his new directives could increase drug prices. It calls for the Trump administration to work with Congress to change a 2022 law in a way that could defang a negotiation program meant to reduce Medicare’s spending on commonly used or costly drugs.”

AXIOS: “The order that Trump signed on Tuesday may be sweeping, but consists largely of ideas that have already been floated or even tried before. The directive is light on details of how some of the policies will be implemented.”

THE HILL: “A new executive order signed Tuesday by President Trump directs Congress to change a key provision of the law allowing Medicare drug price negotiations, a move that would fix one of the drug industry’s biggest complaints.” 

WALL STREET JOURNAL: “The drug price-negotiation program, created by the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act, has been a sore point for the pharmaceutical industry. […] Since the law’s passage in 2022, the industry has pushed to address the eligibility requirement…”

WASHINGTON POST: “Trump also said he would build on a popular program launched by the Biden administration to directly negotiate the price of drugs with the pharmaceutical industry — but support a change sought by the industry, which has called for delaying the period before negotiations can begin on some of the priciest medications, a category known as small-molecule drugs. […] Some congressional Republicans have introduced legislation to delay the negotiations, echoing the drug industry’s argument that the current timeline is too aggressive…”

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“A Slap In The Face”: Protect Our Care Launches New Ads Urging Republicans to Abandon Their Cuts to Medicaid to Fund Tax Cuts

As Part of Its “Hands Off Medicaid” Campaign, Protect Our Care Is Launching Ads Highlighting the Devastating Impact Republicans’ Medicaid Cuts Would Have on Millions of Families

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Washington, D.C. – Protect Our Care is launching new television and digital ads featuring Josephine, a grandmother to a little boy with special needs and conservative voter, who talks about how cuts to Medicaid would cause pain for her family and millions of others. As Congressional Republicans press forward with their scheme to slash Medicaid to fund tax breaks for the wealthy and large corporations, the ads target ten key swing districts and emphasize the devastating impact Republicans’ Medicaid cuts would have on real families, including children, people with disabilities, and seniors, around the country. 

These ads are part of Protect Our Care’s ongoing ten-million-dollar “Hands Off Medicaid” campaign and are running alongside ads launched last week that feature Steve Bannon urging Republicans to be “careful” about cutting Medicaid because “a lot of MAGAs” benefit from the health care program. Read more about Protect Our Care’s latest ads here. 

“These ads expose Republicans for deliberately pushing to dismantle Medicaid to hand out massive tax breaks for the rich – leaving families like Josephine’s without care and at serious financial risk,” said Protect Our Care President Brad Woodhouse. “At the behest of Donald Trump, Congressional Republicans are playing a dangerous game with a program that millions of children, people with disabilities, seniors, people fighting cancer, and working families count on to see a doctor, purchase prescriptions, and get the care they need. Republicans must stop putting millionaires and the corporate elite ahead of everyday Americans and abandon their plan to slash Medicaid.” 

As the largest health care provider in the country, Medicaid provides health care coverage to about 72 million Americans. Poll after poll confirms Trump and Republicans’ scheme to gut Medicaid is completely out of step with the American people. Recent Navigator polling confirms Medicaid is deeply popular amongst majorities of Americans, regardless of party affiliation. Seventy percent of Republicans and 66 percent of independents view Medicaid favorably, and majorities of Americans say they know someone who receives Medicaid benefits. Better yet, 75 percent of Americans oppose cuts to Medicaid, including 53 percent of Republicans and 78 percent of independent voters. 

The ads will launch in the following districts: David Schweikert (AZ-01), David Valadao (CA-22), Young Kim (CA-40), Ken Calvert (CA-41), Nick LaLota (NY-01), Andrew Garbarino (NY-02), Mike Lawler (NY-17), Ryan Mackenzie (PA-07), Rob Bresnahan (PA-08), and Dan Newhouse (WA-04).

Links to each of the 30-second ads can be found below:
David Schweikert (AZ-01)
David Valadao (CA-22)
Young Kim (CA-40)
Ken Calvert (CA-41)
Nick LaLota (NY-01)
Andrew Garbarino (NY-02)
Mike Lawler (NY-17)
Ryan Mackenzie (PA-07)
Rob Bresnahan (PA-08)
Dan Newhouse (WA-04)

Sample Ad Script for PA-08:
Josephine:

My grandson Elijah is the apple of everyone’s eye, everyone that meets Elijah loves him.

But Elijah does have special needs.

If Congress cuts Medicaid, this will affect millions of families, not just children like Elijah.

How many people will live in pain?

I voted Republican last fall, but I don’t understand why they’re doing this

Congressman Bresnahan, we’re counting on you to to stop these cuts to Medicaid.

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Don’t Be Fooled: Trump’s New Executive Order Hikes Drug Costs for the American People 

Washington, D.C. – This evening, the Trump administration issued a new executive order designed by big drug companies to delay Medicare drug price negotiations, giving drug companies four extra years to price gouge seniors. In response, Protect Our Care Chair Leslie Dach issued the following statement: 

“This executive order is a total giveaway to big drug companies who have been spending millions at Mar-a-Lago to have the ear of the President. Far from lowering costs for everyday Americans, the new order includes big drug companies’ number one lobbying priority: weakening Medicare’s power to negotiate lower prices for seniors. During Trump’s first term, he talked a big game about lowering drug prices, but instead delivered huge tax breaks for big drug companies while drug costs skyrocketed, and now he’s eager to do it again. The only winners here are the drug companies. Meanwhile the Inflation Reduction Act, passed solely by Democrats, is saving seniors and taxpayers billions.” 

Background:

Reuters: Trump Signs Healthcare Executive Order That Includes a Win for Pharma Companies. “U.S. President Donald Trump directed his health department on Tuesday to work with Congress on revamping a law that allows Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices, seeking to introduce a change the pharmaceutical industry has lobbied for. Drugmakers have been pushing to delay the timeline under which medications become eligible for price negotiations by four years for small molecule drugs, which are primarily pills and account for most medicines. That would align with the 13-year wait until more complex biotech drugs become eligible for Medicare price negotiations. [Reuters, 4/15/25]

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New Navigator Polling Shows Health Care Tax Credits Are Widely Popular

As Americans File Their Taxes, Republicans Are Plotting to Raise Costs to Give Tax Breaks to the Wealthy

This tax day, new Navigator polling confirms a majority of Americans want Congress to protect the health care tax credits that are lowering costs for millions of families purchasing coverage on their own. If Republicans take away these tax credits, hard-working families’ expenses will increase – health care costs will skyrocket by an average of $2,400 for millions of families, and 5 million people will lose their health care, including self-employed Americans, small business owners, people living in high-cost rural areas, farmers, people with pre-existing conditions, older adults, and more. In response, Protect Our Care Chair Leslie Dach issued a statement:

“The last thing Americans want is to pay more for their health care, but that is the Republican plan for millions of people. They want to end the tax credits that make health insurance affordable for the middle class in order to give out tax breaks for billionaires and big corporations. At a time when Donald Trump is bringing chaos to our economy and raising prices, this is the last thing hard-working families need.”

The Health Care Tax Credits Are Widely Popular. The tax credits are popular across party lines, including 77 percent of Independents and 71 percent of Republicans.

A Majority Want to See the Tax Credits Extended. 75 percent of Americans want Republicans in Congress to extend the health care tax credits, including 71 percent of Independents and 63 percent of Republicans.

Members of Congress Who Support the Tax Credits Are Viewed Favorably. If Republicans let these tax credits expire, it will hurt them politically as 54 percent of Americans will view them less favorably. 56 percent of Americans view members of Congress favorably if they support extending the tax credits. 

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PRESS CALL: Minnesota AG Keith Ellison, American Public Health Association, Supreme Court Expert Join Protect Our Care to Discuss SCOTUS Oral Arguments in Braidwood Case

***MEDIA ADVISORY FOR APRIL 16, 2025, AT 1 PM ET // 12 PM CT***

Washington, DC — On April 16, 2025, at 1 PM ET // 12 PM CT, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, Executive Director of the American Public Health Association Georges Benjamin, and experienced Supreme Court and Appellate lawyer Andrew Pincus will join Protect Our Care for a virtual press conference to discuss the upcoming Supreme Court oral arguments on April 21, 2025, in Kennedy, et al. v. Braidwood, as well as the threats to American health care posed by the case. 

Far-right extremists are urging the Supreme Court to invalidate a key portion of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that requires insurers to cover lifesaving preventive services for free. Eliminating patient fees for these lifesaving screenings and services has transformed how preventive care is delivered, saved countless lives, improved health outcomes, reduced disparities in care, and cut consumer health care costs. Read more about the case here. 

PRESS CALL:

WHO:
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison
Georges Benjamin, Executive Director, American Public Health Association
Andrew Pincus, Experienced Supreme Court and Appellate Lawyer
Leslie Dach, Chair of Protect Our Care

WHAT: Virtual Press Conference

WHERE: Register for the Event Here

WHEN: Wednesday, April 16, 2025, at 1 PM ET // 12 PM CT

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TODAY: Baldwin Brings “Hands Off Medicaid Tour” to Green Bay with Protect Our Care

GREEN BAY, WI – On Tuesday, April 15th, U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin will bring her “Hands Off Medicaid Tour” to Green Bay as Congressional Republicans move ahead with their plan that will slash Medicaid and threaten to take away health care from Wisconsinites to pay for tax breaks for the wealthy.

In Wisconsin, Medicaid provides care for more than 1.2 million people, including four in seven nursing home residents, one in three children, and one in three adults with disabilities.

WHAT:
Roundtable and Press Availability

WHEN:
Tuesday, April 15th at 10:00 AM CT

WHERE:
Curative Connections
2900 Curry Lane, Green Bay, WI 54311

WHO:
Tammy Baldwin, U.S. Senator
Mari Panzer, impacted constituent from Menasha
Katie Naniot, impacted constituent from Green Bay
Pete Silski, impacted constituent from Green Bay
Megan Riehl, impacted constituent from Wrightstown
Stacey Belleau, impacted constituent from Suamico
Barb Rich & son Andy Jung, impacted constituents from Manitowoc
Samantha Platkowski, impacted constituent from Green Bay
Jeanne Stangel, President & CEO of Curative Connections

RSVP:
Media interested in attending this event are encouraged to RSVP to [email protected] by 9:30am CT on Tuesday, April 15th.

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NEW ADS: Protect Our Care Expands Ad Campaign, Targeting GOP Members of House Committee on Energy and Commerce

Ads Will Run in Four Additional House Districts After Republicans Advance Budget Slashing Medicaid to Pay For Tax Breaks For the Ultra-Wealthy

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Washington, D.C. – Protect Our Care is launching a new round of ads targeting four Republican lawmakers on the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Last week, House Republicans voted to press forward with their budget that includes the largest Medicaid cuts in history. Now, the House Energy and Commerce Committee is tasked with finding $880 billion in cuts without touching Medicare or Social Security. According to the Congressional Budget Office, to achieve the GOP budget goals, they must cut Medicaid, putting health care for more than 70 million people in jeopardy

The latest ads are part of Protect Our Care’s ongoing 10-million-dollar “Hands Off Medicaid” campaign, following an ad featuring Steve Bannon urging Republicans to be “careful” about cutting Medicaid and highlighting widespread, bipartisan opposition to Medicaid cuts.

“These Republicans play a critical role in determining just how devastating these Medicaid cuts will be,” said Protect Our Care President Brad Woodhouse. “By charging forward with cuts to Medicaid, Republicans are turning their backs on their constituents and prioritizing tax breaks for billionaires and big corporations at the expense of the health and financial well-being of hard-working families. Millions across the country are counting on Republicans to do the right thing and reject cuts to Medicaid. If Republicans continue on this path, there will be a price to pay. ”

The ads will launch in the following districts: Mariannette Miller-Meeks (IA-01), John James (MI-10), Tom Kean Jr. (NJ-07), and Gabe Evans (CO-08). The ads were previously launched in David Schweikert (AZ-01), David Valadao (CA-22), Young Kim (CA-40), Ken Calvert (CA-41), Nick LaLota (NY-01), Andrew Garbarino (NY-02), Mike Lawler (NY-17), Nick Langworthy (NY-23), Ryan Mackenzie (PA-07), Scott Perry (PA-10), and Dan Newhouse (WA-04).

Links to each of the 30-second ads can be found below:
Mariannette Miller-Meeks (IA-01)
John James (MI-10)
Tom Kean Jr. (NJ-07)
Gabe Evans (CO-08)

Sample Ad Script for IA-01

Narrator: Your representative in Congress, Mariannette Miller-Meeks, just voted to slash our health care to help pay for massive tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires. 

Over 70 million Americans count on Medicaid for their health care. And putting seniors, children with disabilities, working families, and rural hospitals at risk to provide another tax break for the wealthiest Americans is just plain wrong. 

Call Mariannette Miller-Meeks and tell her – Hands off Medicaid.

Previous “Hands Off Medicaid” Ads

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