Washington, D.C. – For this 40th Women’s History Month, Protect Our Care is releasing a new report unearthing the fallout of Trump and congressional Republicans’ health care war on women. From gutting $1 trillion from Medicaid to enrich billionaires and big corporations to ripping away health tax credits from over 12 million women to tearing away reproductive freedom, the GOP is regressing women’s health by decades. To get a glimpse of the fallout from the GOP’s radical corporate agenda, look no further than its impact on caregivers. Standing 63 million strong — more than 60 percent of whom are women — caregivers are having the rug pulled out from under them. Now, millions of women caregivers, like Susan from Colorado, are losing critical Medicaid income that helps keep their families afloat — forcing them to make impossible decisions between rent, groceries, and, most gut-wrenchingly, giving up caring for their loved ones in order to afford Republicans’ skyrocketing health care costs.
“What Republicans have done to women’s health is despicable and dangerous,” said Protect Our Care Communications Director Maddie Twomey. “From every pocket of the nation, women are bearing witness to the fallout of the GOP’s corporate agenda. Rural hospitals and maternity wards are vanishing, putting expectant mothers and their babies’ lives in needless danger. Reproductive care has been obliterated, leaving women to face worse health outcomes. And the damage extends beyond women’s health — it hits them and their families’ pocketbooks. The GOP is actively making it harder for countless women to afford their premiums, keep their small businesses afloat, and pay for life-saving care for themselves and their loved ones. Make no mistake: This is a political party of billionaires, by billionaires, and for billionaires — and women are paying the price.”