Rep. Angie Craig Stands with House Democrats, Small Business Owners, Physicians, Contract Workers to Introduce Bill to Reverse Republicans’ Historic Health Care Cuts

WASHINGTON, DC – This month, U.S. Representative Angie Craig joined Rep. Adam Gray (CA-13), fellow House Democrats, small business owners, physicians and contract workers in a press conference at the U.S. Capitol to announce their bill to restore Medicaid funding and extend the Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium tax credits set to expire at the end of the year. Their Protecting Health Care and Lowering Costs Actis a response to the Republicans’ “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which was signed into law in July.

Republicans' Medicaid cuts – which represent the deepest cuts to health care in American history – have put 140,000 Minnesotans in jeopardy of losing their health care coverage.

“We believe – like most Americans – that access to health care is a right not a privilege,” saidRep. Craig in her remarks. “That's why we introduced this bill – to repeal the Republicans’ draconian health care cuts and deliver on a promise that President Trump made but hasn’t delivered on: lowering costs for the American people.”

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 hosted a press conference at Allina Health United Hospital – Hastings Regina Campus alongside state legislators, union members and health care advocates to stand against Republicans’ sweeping cuts to Medicaid and their failure to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits.

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 Rep. Craig’s remarks here.

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