Yesterday, Protect Our Care launched a multi-million dollar campaign, “Hands Off Medicaid,” to block the Republican-led plan to slash Medicaid funding to pay for another round of tax cuts for the wealthy and big corporations. Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress are openly plotting trillions of dollars in cuts to Medicaid in order to fund their outrageous tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans. As a result, millions – including working folks, children with disabilities, expectant mothers, and seniors in nursing homes – could lose critical health care coverage.
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Washington Post: Democrats Move to Protect Medicaid, Wary of Trump’s Looming Changes.
- Protect Our Care, an advocacy group aligned with Democrats, on Tuesday will launch a $10 million “Hands Off Medicaid” campaign that highlights how the program helps protect Americans who are older, disabled or low-income, among other vulnerable populations.
- “What we’re focused on are those members who come from states with large Medicaid populations, and who should have the guts to stand up for their constituents,” Dach said in an interview Monday. “This is a campaign designed to stop these cuts from happening in reconciliation.”
Axios: 1 Big Thing: Swing GOPers Deflect on Medicaid Cuts
- The other side: The Democratic group Protect Our Care launched an eight-figure ad campaign today targeting vulnerable Republicans, warning of health care being “ripped away.”
Politico: Ad It Up.
- Protect Our Care is making a preemptive move to pressure Republicans not to cut Medicaid with a $10 million “Hands Off Medicaid” ad campaign, WaPo’s Dan Diamond and Jeff Stein report. They’re focused specifically on 17 representatives and senators, largely moderates and members with a lot of constituents on Medicaid.
The Hill: Advocates Roll Out Efforts to Shield Medicaid.
- “The American people didn’t vote in November to have their grandparents kicked out of nursing homes or health care ripped away from kids with disabilities or expectant moms in order to give Elon Musk another tax cut,” Protect Our Care chair Leslie Dach said in a statement.
Common Dreams: Targeting Vulnerable Republicans, Campaign Demands ‘Hands Off Medicaid’ in Spending Cut Talks.
- Dach noted on Tuesday that Republicans are eyeing cuts to social spending after an election in which the party “claimed to care about working people and the cost of living.” “Nothing could be more outrageous than ripping away healthcare from millions of seniors, children, moms, and workers to pay for another round of tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires,” said Dach. “The American people didn’t vote in November to have their grandparents kicked out of nursing homes or healthcare ripped away from kids with disabilities or expectant moms in order to give [billionaire Trump backer] Elon Musk another tax cut.” “We know firsthand from the campaign to defeat [the] ACA repeal eight years ago, and every healthcare fight since, that healthcare is a top-of-mind issue for Americans—and they want lawmakers to do more to ensure affordable access to coverage, not less,” Dach added. “Our ‘Hands off Medicaid’ campaign will make that abundantly clear and demand that Medicaid cuts are off the table—for good.”