Rep. Angie Craig Stands with State Legislators, Union Members, Health Care Advocates in Hastings After Republicans Make Deepest Cuts to Health Care in American History
HASTINGS, MN – Last week, U.S. Representative Angie Craig hosted a press conference at Allina Health United Hospital – Hastings Regina Campus alongside state legislators, union members and health care advocates to stand against the sweeping cuts to Medicaid and Affordable Care Act tax credits enacted through the President’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.” These cuts have put 140,000 Minnesotans in jeopardy of losing their health care coverage.
Rep. Craig was joined by State Representative Robert Bierman; State Senator Judy Seeberger; Government Relations and Policy Director at the National Committee to Protect Social Security and Medicare Dan Adcock; President of Allina Health United Hospital – Hastings Regina Campus Jill Ostrem and home caregiver and SEIU Home Care member Kerry Adelmann.
“Working- and middle-class Minnesotans will die though because President Trump and my colleagues Congress – including the four Representatives from my own state – are more concerned with lining the pockets of billionaires than they are with taking care of the people they represent,” saidRep. Craig in her remarks. "The truth is, this bill will raise the national debt by nearly four trillion dollars over 10 years to pay for tax breaks for billionaires."
By slashing Medicaid and allowing the Affordable Care Act tax credits to expire, Congressional Republicans have moved to rip health care away from 17 million Americans in order to fund massive tax breaks for billionaires and wealthy corporations.
Cuts to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) will not only increase health care costs for Minnesotans, but will also likely force Minnesota counties to increase property taxes by shifting the cost of government programs over to the State.
Rep. Craig has long fought to lower health care costs and protect Medicaid in Congress. Last month, she joined Protect Our Care Minnesota for a virtual press conference to discuss the impacts of Congressional Republicans’ vote to advance the deepest cuts to health care in American history.
In April, she joined fellow top Democrats in introducing her Hands Off Medicaid and SNAP Actin an attempt to block the extreme and unprecedented cuts to SNAP and Medicaid in the Republican budget.
In 2023, Rep. Craig introduced her Emergency Access to Insulin Act to help Americans without health insurance afford insulin by expanding emergency insulin access, lowering costs for those without health insurance and taking additional steps to hold drug companies accountable for price gouging Americans. And in 2022, provisions of Rep. Craig’s Affordable Insulin Now Actto cap insulin copays at $35/month for Medicare recipients were signed into law as part of the Inflation Reduction Act.
You can watch the full press conference here.
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