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STATEMENT: SCOTUS Rejects Far-Right Attack on ACA, But Preventive Care is Still At Risk

Washington, D.C. – Today, the Supreme Court rightly rejected a constitutional challenge from far-right activists that would have eliminated the Affordable Care Act (ACA)’s cost-free coverage requirement for numerous life-saving preventive care services. Approximately 150 million Americans rely on the ACA for free access to services like cancer screenings, statins to address high cholesterol levels, mental health screenings, HIV prevention medication, and more.

However, despite this win, preventative services are still in danger. The Trump administration was given the ability to overturn health experts’ evidence-based recommendations regarding which preventive services insurers must cover. HHS Secretary RFK Jr. already replaced a key panel responsible for issuing vaccine recommendations and just yesterday the panel made one of the first major changes in federal vaccine guidance, voting to recommend that no one receives certain flu shots containing an ingredient anti-vaccine advocates have long targeted without any evidence. Existing coverage is now at risk, given the Trump administration’s open embrace of pseudoscientific treatments and track record of embracing junk plans that are not required to cover evidence-based services – not to mention their longtime goal of repealing the ACA altogether.

In response, Protect Our Care Senior Advisor Anne Shoup issued a statement:

“Today’s Supreme Court ruling in Kennedy v. Braidwood is a major victory for the American people and for affordable health care. For now, millions of Americans can breathe a sigh of relief knowing they can continue to access free lifesaving care, such as cancer screenings, statins to address high cholesterol levels, mental health screenings, and HIV prevention medication. But make no mistake – this is not over. While today’s ruling protects preventive care for now, the Trump administration including HHS Secretary RFK Jr., Republicans, and other far-right extremists continue to try and weaken these protections and hand more power to insurance companies. The fight to protect affordable health care for all is far from over. We must remain vigilant to ensure access to science-backed preventative services are protected”

ADVISORY: Protect Our Care’s Mobile Billboard to Circle Capitol Hill Urging Key Senate Republicans to Stand Up for Constituents, Not Billionaires, and Reject Health Care Cuts

***MEDIA ADVISORY FOR FRIDAY JUNE 27*** 

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Washington, D.C. – Protect Our Care is organizing a mobile billboard which will circle Capitol Hill and the Mall, targeting six key Senate Republicans as they race to pass their “Big, Ugly Bill” this weekend. On Friday, June 27 from 10 AM ET to 6 PM ET, the mobile billboard will play Protect Our Care’s ads targeting Lisa Murkowski (AK), Dan Sullivan (AK), Susan Collins (ME), Thom Tillis (NC), Shelley Moore Capito (WV), and Jim Justice (WV). 

The GOP bill makes the largest health care cuts in history, slashing Medicaid and dismantling the Affordable Care Act in order to fund tax breaks for big corporations and the wealthy. Millions of Americans would lose life-saving coverage, including seniors, children, veterans, people with disabilities, workers who don’t get insurance through their jobs, and people who take care of their children or elderly parents. Not only will hardworking families lose their coverage, but rural hospitals will shut down, seniors will be forced to leave their nursing homes, and people fighting cancer or addiction will lose access to critical treatment. Senate Republicans need to stand up for their constituents and reject this bill or face the consequences at the ballot box. 

WHAT: Mobile Billboard

WHERE: Capitol Hill and the Mall

WHEN: 10 AM ET to 6 PM ET

Sample Ad Script for ME:

Narrator: With everyday costs as high as they are, no one can afford to lose their health care. Yet, right now, some in Congress are trying to pass the biggest cut to Medicaid in history. 

Their plan means sixteen million Americans could lose health care. Seniors, veterans, and children with disabilities. All to give another tax break to billionaires and big corporations.

Our Senator, Susan Collins, can stop this from happening.

Call Senator Collins and tell her we’re counting on her to stop these cuts to our health care.

HEADLINES: Protect Our Care, Advocates Sound the Alarm In Key Senate States As Their Senators Consider Big, Ugly Bill

Over the past week, health care advocates and everyday Americans in Alaska, Maine, Missouri, North Carolina, and West Virginia have been sounding the alarm over the tax bill their Republican Senators are racing to pass. The bill would kick millions off their health care by making the largest cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act in history, all so Trump and the GOP can give tax breaks to big corporations and the wealthy. Millions of children and people with disabilities would lose coverage, seniors would be forced to leave their nursing homes, and people with cancer or serious medical conditions would lose lifesaving care. In rural states like these, Republican cuts would force hospitals to shut down, costing jobs and crippling local economies. Poll after poll shows that Americans across the political spectrum overwhelmingly disapprove of this bill. Now it’s on GOP Senators like Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, Thom Tillis, and Josh Hawley to listen to the outcry from their constituents, and reject this devastating bill.

ALASKA

  • Anchorage Daily News: Opinion from State Representative Mina: Alaskans Will Lose Under Proposed SNAP and Medicaid Cuts
  • Anchorage Daily News: Opinion: As An Anchorage Pediatrician, I See Every Day How the Proposed Medicaid Cuts Would Hurt Alaska Kids 
  • KBBI Homer: Homer Residents Protest Proposed Medicaid Cuts
  • KHNS Radio: Klukwan Teen Says Medicaid Gives Him the Resources to Live His Life
  • Anchorage Daily News: We’re Alaska Health Care Providers. Defunding Planned Parenthood Through Medicaid Cuts Will Harm Our Patients And Our Clinics.
  • Wasilla Frontiersman: Caregivers, Families Rally Against Proposed Medicaid Cuts In Wasilla

MAINE

  • Portland Press Herald: Maine’s Hospitals Say They’re Under Threat by Proposed Medicaid Cuts 
  • Bangor Daily News: Opinion: Rural Maine Can’t Afford Hospital Losses That Republican Reconciliation Bill Would Bring (paywalled, the full text is viewable here)

MISSOURI

  • KRCG: Missouri Officials Sound the Alarm on Medicaid Cuts 
  • St. Louis Dispatch: Missouri Health Providers And Advocates Raise Alarms Ahead Of Vote On ‘Big, Beautiful’ Bill
  • Missouri Independent: Federal Spending Bill Could Be ‘Devastating’ For Missouri Medicaid Patients, Rural Hospitals
  • Krcg (CBS Columbia): Missouri Rural Areas May Experience Hospital Closures, Economic Impacts From Medicaid Cuts
  • Maryville Forum: Federal Spending Bill Could Be ‘Devastating’ For Missouri Medicaid Patients, Rural Hospitals
  • Columbia Missourian: Proposed Cuts Could Impact Access To Medicaid And Rural Hospitals
  • Ktvo (CBS Kirksville): Missouri Rural Areas May Experience Hospital Closures, Economic Impacts From Medicaid Cuts

NORTH CAROLINA 

  • NC Newsline: NC Democratic Lawmakers Decry Impact Of GOP Mega-Bill On Rural Health Care
  • WRAZ: Congressman Davis And Senator Murdock To Discuss Possible Cuts To Medicaid 
  • WNCT: Congressman Davis Partners With Protect Our Care 
  • Wilson Times: Our Communities, Hospitals Can’t Afford To Lose Medicaid

WEST VIRGINIA

  • WTAP: What Could The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” Mean For West Virginians? 
  • Herald-Dispatch: Vigil Highlights Locals Concerns On Cuts To Medicaid
  • WV Metro News: Hospital Reps: Rural Healthcare Providers Would Be At Risk Under ‘Big, Beautiful’ Provisions
  • Charleston Gazette-Mail: Opinion from Brian McNicoll: Trump Must Find Other Places To Cut
  • The Intermountain: Medicaid, SNAP A Focus Of Proposed Bill 
  • WV Watch: Medicaid Matters For Oral Health 
  • Gazette-Mail: 6 Arrested During Sit-In At Capito’s Office, Charleston, WV
  • WV Watch: Six Arrested While Protesting Cuts To Medicaid, SNAP Outside Capito’s Charleston Office
  • WCHS-TV: Six Charged With Trespassing While Protesting At Sen. Capito’s Charleston Office
  • WV Watch: “Big, Beautiful Bill” Contains Severe Cuts To Programs For West Virginians With Disabilities
  • WTRF: West Virginia Organizations Push Back Against Senate Plan To Cut Medicaid And SNAP
  • WV Metronews: As ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Hits Home Stretch, Community Groups Urge Senators To Say ‘No’
  • WVVA-TV: As Coal Miners Face Layoffs, Federal Cuts To Public Assistance Also Loom
  • WV News: Gop Medicaid Cuts Threaten To Devastate Key Lifeline In West Virginia
  • 12WBOY: Mountaineer Food Bank Says SNAP Changes Means 9.5 Billion Fewer Meals
  • Logan Banner: Proposed Medicaid Cuts Would Be Detrimental, Health Leader Says; 7 Rural WV Hospitals Would Close
  • Appalachian Voices: Groups Urge Sens. Capito, Justice To Protect West Virginia

ADVISORY: Protect Our Care Urges Senate Republicans to Reject Catastrophic Health Care Cuts With Lite Brite Display and Mobile Billboard

***MEDIA ADVISORY FOR THURSDAY JUNE 26 AND FRIDAY JUNE 27***

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Washington, D.C. – Protect Our Care is holding two events this week as Senate Republicans march towards a vote on their Big, Ugly Bill ahead of their self-imposed July 4th deadline. On Thursday, June 26 at 9 PM ET, a Lite-Brite display telling Republicans “Hands Off Health Care” will be held on the east front of the Senate steps. On Friday, June 27 from 10 AM ET to 6 PM ET, a mobile billboard will circle Capitol Hill and the Mall playing ads targeting six key Senate Republicans: Lisa Murkowski (AK), Dan Sullivan (AK), Susan Collins (ME), Thom Tillis (NC), Shelley Moore Capito (WV), and Jim Justice (WV). The action follows Protect Our Care’s projection on the RNC building in D.C. which blasted Senators Mitch Connell and Joni Ernst for their comments mocking and dismissing constituents worried about Medicaid cuts. 

The GOP bill makes the largest health care cuts in history, slashing Medicaid and dismantling the Affordable Care Act in order to fund tax breaks for big corporations and the wealthy. Millions of Americans would lose life-saving coverage, including seniors, children, veterans, people with disabilities, workers who don’t get insurance through their jobs, and people who take care of their children or elderly parents. Not only will hardworking families lose their health care, but rural hospitals will shut down, seniors will be forced to leave their nursing homes, and people fighting cancer or addiction will lose access to critical treatment. Senate Republicans need to stand up for their constituents and reject this bill or face the consequences at the ballot box. 

THURSDAY

WHAT: Lite-Brite Display

WHERE: East front of the Senate steps

WHEN: 9 PM ET

FRIDAY

WHAT: Mobile Billboard

WHERE: Capitol Hill and the Mall

WHEN: 10 AM ET to 6 PM ET

Sample Ad Script for ME:

Narrator: With everyday costs as high as they are, no one can afford to lose their health care. Yet, right now, some in Congress are trying to pass the biggest cut to Medicaid in history. 

Their plan means sixteen million Americans could lose health care. Seniors, veterans, and children with disabilities. All to give another tax break to billionaires and big corporations.

Our Senator, Susan Collins, can stop this from happening.

Call Senator Collins and tell her we’re counting on her to stop these cuts to our health care.

MCCONNELL EXPOSES TRUTH: Protect Our Care Blasts Republicans For Sen. McConnell’s Comment Telling Millions Who Lose Medicaid to “Get Over It”

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.”

TODAY: Protect Our Care Continues Events Across the Country Rallying Against Catastrophic Health Care Cuts In Republican Spending Bill

Protect Our Care Holds Events In Alaska, Missouri, New Hampshire, and North Carolina Headlined by U.S. Representatives Don Davis (D-NC-01) and Maggie Goodlander (D-NH-02)

Today, Protect Our Care is hosting events coast to coast with U.S. Representatives Don Davis (D-NC-01), Maggie Goodlander (D-NH-02), and health care advocates to call on Senate Republicans to put an end to their war on health care and reject Donald Trump’s big, ugly bill. The Republican bill makes the biggest cut to American health care in history, decimating Medicaid and dismantling the Affordable Care Act. The consequences of this bill cannot be overstated, with 16 million Americans off their health care just to hand out tax breaks to billionaires and big corporations. Speakers will address the urgent need for Congress to stop Republican efforts to slash Medicaid and raise premiums, and they will call on lawmakers to protect affordable access to health care for Americans, not take it away.

NORTH CAROLINA

WHO:
U.S. Representative Don Davis (D-NC-01)
State Sen. Natalie Murdock
Dr. David Hill
Protect Our Care NC

WHAT: Virtual Press Conference

WHERE: Register to join the Zoom event (Registration required)

WHEN: Wednesday, June 25 at 10 AM ET

NEW HAMPSHIRE

WHO:
U.S. Representative Maggie Goodlander (D-NH-02)
Jayme Simoes, Protect Our Care New Hampshire

WHAT: Virtual Press Conference with Representative Goodlander

WHERE: Register to join the Zoom event (Registration required)

WHEN: Wednesday, June 25 at 3PM ET

MISSOURI

WHO:
Nancy Kelly, Director of Advocacy at Missouri Foundation of Health
Missouri Senator Patty Lewis (D-MO-7)
Protect Our Care MO

WHAT: Medicaid Accountability/Save Our Hospitals Event with Advocates

WHERE: Register here to join the Zoom event (Registration required)

WHEN: Wednesday, June 25 at 1:30 PM CT // 2:30 PM ET

ALASKA

Anchorage

WHO: Amber Lee, Protect Our Care Alaska
SEIU 775
Heidi Drygas, ASEA AFSCME Local 52 Executive Director
Joelle Hall, Alaska AFL-CIO President and an Alaska Caregiver.

WHAT: Death by a Trillion Cuts: What’s At Stake – Anchorage Office Action

WHERE: Outside of Senator Dan Sullivan’s Office:
510 L Street, Anchorage, Alaska
1900 First Ave, Suite 225, Ketchikan

WHEN: Wednesday, June 25 at 12 PM AKDT // 4 PM ET

Ketchikan

WHO:
Concerned citizens
Alaska Caregivers
Protect Our Care Alaska

WHERE: Outside of Senator Dan Sullivan’s Office:
1900 First Ave, Suite 225, Ketchikan, Alaska

WHEN: Wednesday, June 25 at 12 PM AKDT // 4 PM ET

SHAMEFUL: As Hospitals Sound the Alarm, Senate Republicans Float Barely a Band-Aid to Help Rural Hospitals Survive

Washington, D.C.— According to reporting from Punchbowl, Senate Republicans are circulating a proposal for a $15 billion pity fund for rural hospitals. This is a drop in the bucket compared to the more than $400 billion in projected losses for hospitals in the next 10 years due to GOP proposed cuts to health care. The proposal comes as several Republican Senators express concern over the hospital closures their Big, Ugly Bill would cause. Even with this meager “fix,” hundreds of hospitals will close at the hands of Republicans, who are dead set on handing out trillions in tax breaks to the rich by passing the largest cuts to Medicaid in history. Read more in our latest report.

“This fund is a band-aid over a bullet hole,” said Protect Our Care President Brad Woodhouse. “Senate Republicans are trying to provide themselves political cover for their wildly unpopular and dangerous bill, but the American people will know the truth. $15 billion for rural hospitals is no consolation prize after they pass a trillion dollars in cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act. Hospitals will still close, people will be left without care, and many will suffer and die. These Republican policies will kill people, and this fund won’t stop that hard truth.”

ADVISORY: Protect Our Care To Project Images On RNC After McConnell Tells Americans to “Get Over” Medicaid Cuts

**MEDIA ADVISORY FOR TUESDAY, JUNE 24 AT 9 PM ET***  

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CONTACT: Melissa Byrne (609) 364-4267

Washington, D.C. – Today, Tuesday, June 24, 2025, at 9 PM ET, Protect Our Care is digitally projecting images holding Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) accountable for dismissing constituents’ concerns that the GOP’s big, ugly bill makes the largest cut health care in history, decimating Medicaid and dismantling the Affordable Care Act.

Earlier today, Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said constituents back home will have to “get over” having their health care ripped away from them in order to fund tax breaks for billionaires and big corporations, according to Punchbowl News. This comes just barely less than a month since Senator Joni Ernst’s (R-IA) viral “We’re all going to die” comment.

PROJECTION DISPLAY

WHAT: Digital projection display

WHERE: Outside the Republican National Committee, 310 1st St SE, Washington, DC 20003

WHEN: 9 PM ET

STATEMENT: McConnell Shrugs off Devastating Health Care Cuts, Admitting Republicans Don’t Care if People Lose Health Care

Washington, D.C. – Just barely less than a month since Senator Joni Ernst’s (R-IA) viral “We’re all going to die” comment, Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has joined her in admitting the Republican agenda is disastrous for the American people. According to Punchbowl News, McConnell said constituents back home will have to “get over” having their health care ripped away from them in order to fund tax breaks for billionaires and big corporations. 

In response, Protect Our Care President Brad Woodhouse issued a statement:

“Two of the Senate’s top Republicans have said the quiet part out loud: they know their agenda is a disaster and they simply don’t care. Mitch McConnell has told the American people to ‘get over it,’ and Joni Ernst told them how – ‘die.’ Instead of listening to the outrage pouring in from across the country, including from both sides of the aisle, Republicans are doubling down and demolishing our health care system to put more money into the pockets of the ultra-wealthy, no matter how many lives it costs.”

GOP’s Big, Ugly Bill Could Pass This Week And Millions Could Lose Coverage

Washington, D.C. – This week is a critical week as Republicans in Congress are racing to jam their big, ugly bill through in order to fund tax breaks for billionaires and big corporations at the expense of the American people. New reporting suggests the full bill text will be released later this week as Senate Republicans march towards a vote ahead of their self-imposed July 4th deadline.

“This bill is a Trojan horse for the same cruel, unpopular policies the American people have already rejected time and again,” said Protect Our Care President Brad Woodhouse. “Republicans continue to try to pull the wool over the eyes of the people and lie about the harm this bill will cause. The truth is if their tax scam becomes law, millions will lose coverage, families will pay more for less, and our nation’s health care system will be thrown into chaos, all so they can give a tax break to the wealthiest among us. Every Republican who claims to care about their constituents needs to think twice about what they are doing and reject this horrendous bill.”