New Ads Are Part of Protect Our Care’s $10 Million “Hands Off Medicaid” Campaign
Watch “Choice: Seniors v. Tax Breaks” Here
Watch “Choice: Kids v. Tax Breaks” Here
Washington, D.C. – Protect Our Care is launching two new television and digital ads today as part of its $10 million dollar “Hands Off Medicaid” campaign exposing the choice between protecting Medicaid or giving away new tax breaks to the ultra-wealthy. The ads, first reported in Fox News, will run almost exclusively on Fox News targeting Republican congressional offices in Washington, D.C., at the very moment House Republican leaders are writing a budget resolution to pay for tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires by cutting critical programs for working-class Americans, including Medicaid.
The 15-second ads, which will run back to back, will also run on digital platforms 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). This is the second round of ads Protect Our Care has run in these 10 key districts following a nearly half-million dollar ad buy targeting these Republican members in late January.
This new ad campaign, a significant six-figure investment, begins today and will run through next week as House Republican lawmakers work to finish their budget resolution, which could allow them to ram through cuts to Medicaid on a party-line vote.
“Republicans have put Medicaid on the chopping block, threatening to take away the health care that over 70 million Americans rely on in order to fund tax breaks for billionaires and big corporations,” said Protect Our Care Chair Leslie Dach. “It’s unfathomable why anyone would want to gut Medicaid, but Republicans are openly floating cuts to care for seniors, working people, and kids. The American people overwhelmingly support Medicaid and will not stand for these extreme attempts to rip away coverage from those who need it most just to give billionaires another tax cut.”
Medicaid is the largest health insurance program in the country, providing health care to more than 70 million Americans. Cuts to the program would mean ripping away health care from millions of families who count on it, including kids, moms, seniors, people of color, rural Americans, workers whose employers don’t provide health insurance, and people with disabilities. The consequences of cuts to Medicaid would touch nearly every household in America.
Protect Our Care’s “Hands Off Medicaid” campaign is sounding the alarm on Republicans working to slash Medicaid funding to pay for another round of tax cuts for the wealthy and big corporations. The campaign is an eight-figure effort that includes paid advertising, on-the-ground events, and organizing to make sure people understand the devastating consequences of Republican plans to cut health care.
Ad #1 Script
Which do you think should happen? A billionaire gets another tax break, or this senior has Medicaid to age with dignity?
Some in Congress want to cut his care to pay for tax breaks for people like him.
Call your member of Congress. Tell them to protect Medicaid.
Ad #2 Script
Which do you think should happen? A billionaire gets a bigger yacht, or this child has Medicaid to get the health care they need?
Some in Congress want to cut their care to pay for this.
Call your member of Congress. Tell them to protect Medicaid.
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