After creating a health care crisis leaving Wisconsinites at risk of losing access to lifesaving care, Derrick Van Orden voted to pass a disastrous health care ‘plan’ that even his Republican colleague called “milquetoast garbage.”
Van Orden’s 11th hour health care scheme will push junk insurance plans, undermine protections for people with preexisting conditions, make health care more expensive, and leave millions of Americans without health insurance because they are letting critical ACA tax credits expire – causing premiums to skyrocket.
REMINDER: Van Orden has spent his entire career attacking health care. He supports a full repeal of the Affordable Care Act. He opposes extending the ACA tax credits. And after voting for the largest Medicaid cuts in history and celebrating it, Van Orden tried to cover his tracks by lying that he secured funding for BadgerCare (spoiler alert: he didn’t).
Van Orden is to blame for the 30,000 people in WI-03 who will pay 123% more for their health insurance premiums.
DCCC Spokesperson Katie Smith:
“Derrick Van Orden can’t seem to stop voting to raise costs on Wisconsinites. Van Orden’s latest ‘plan’ is nothing more than a smokescreen for his long record of gutting health care and making life more expensive for Wisconsin families – all while undermining protections for preexisting conditions and doing nothing to address the skyrocketing health insurance costs Wisconsinites are set to face in just two weeks. Van Orden’s record of destroying health care will be a defining issue of his race, and voters will hold him accountable when they fire him next year.”
