Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee: Fact check: Derrick Van Orden’s record gutting health care, siding with insurers and pharma instead of lowering health care costs

Derrick Van Orden is lying about his record gutting health care. 

LIE: DVO brags about securing $203 million to Wisconsin from the so-called “Rural Health Transformation Program” for hospitals in West Central Wisconsin. 

FACT CHECK: The math doesn’t lie. DVO voted to cut $7 BILLION from Wisconsin health care over the next decade, a total of $700 million per year. These cuts are stripping health care from millions of people, and hospitals in WI-03 alone are “projected to lose more than $42 million in annual revenue.”

LIE: DVO claims he delivered lower drug costs for families. 

FACT CHECK: DVO opposed requiring Medicare to negotiate lower prescription drug prices. He takes campaign cash from drug companies and votes with them. 

LIE: DVO claims he is taking on health insurance companies.

FACT CHECK: DVO took campaign cash from health insurers. Then, he supported a bill that would undermine protections for people with preexisting conditions. And he voted to raisehealth care premiums.  

DCCC Spokesperson Katie Smith:
“Derrick Van Orden voted for the largest Medicaid cuts in history, stripping health care from millions and risking rural health services, he took cash from the health insurers and drug companies and sided with them to keep costs high – all to lower taxes for his special interest donors. He is out-of-touch and lying about his record because he knows he can’t defend it.”