Washington, D.C. – Tomorrow, open enrollment begins, and millions of families across the nation will begin signing up for coverage. Because Donald Trump and Republicans stripped tax credits from over 24 million Americans to fund tax breaks for their billionaire friends, hard-working people will log onto the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace and find that their health plans are more than double last year’s. Families will be forced — and have already begun — to sit around the kitchen table to make impossible, gut-wrenching decisions about the future of their health and finances.
As families go to enroll, Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress continue their health care shutdown because they refuse to fix this crisis. If Republicans continue down this road, over four million Americans will lose coverage entirely because the price hikes are simply unaffordable. Read more about what Donald Trump and Republicans’ elimination of these critical tax credits mean for millions of hard-working Americans in Protect Our Care’s fact sheet here.
“When open enrollment begins, the Republican Party will officially have passed the point of no return,” said Protect Our Care President Brad Woodhouse. “Republicans are so hell-bent on putting billionaires first that they are holding the government hostage to strip health care tax credits from more than 24 million Americans. If Republicans continue down their path of destruction, every family facing sticker shock will know exactly who to blame. It’s time to end this GOP health care crisis and put health care for working families over tax breaks for billionaires.”
BACKGROUND
STATEMENT: As Window Shopping Opens on HealthCare.gov, the GOP Can’t Hide From Their Betrayal
Premium Hikes Hit Home for GOP Members As Window Shopping Continues
IN THE NEWS: Who Are the Millions of Americans Caught in the GOP Health Care Crisis
