Ciscomani & Schweikert's Vote for Republican Tax Law Threatens to Close Rural Health Facilities

TUCSON — Congressmen Juan Ciscomani and David Schweikert voted for the Republican Tax Law which threatens the closure of health facilities in rural Arizona and across the country.

Despite correctly assessing that the GOP Tax Law “threatens access to coverage” and “jeopardizes the stability of our hospitals and providers,” Congressman Ciscomani ignored the needs of his constituents and voted for it anyway. Now the law is threatening to close at least five facilities in rural Arizona.

According to CNN:

“Rural health providers that rely on Medicaid funding were already under strain before the bill cut federal health spending by hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade. Now, Democrats are linking that crisis to Trump and Republicans in elections this year and next.

‘You can expect those places to be impacted by now having people who don’t even have Medicaid,’ Layton said. ‘With fewer people to spread fixed costs across, it becomes harder and harder to stay open.’

Rural health care providers disproportionately rely on Medicaid enrollees. They were already struggling with limited patient pools and long-term population loss.”

“Congressmen Schweikert and Ciscomani abandoned Arizonans who rely on Medicaid to access health care just to throw massive tax giveaways at the wealthiest Americans and corporations,” said Andrea Moreno, executive director of Honest Arizona. “They have the chance now to work with both parties to restore the health care access that Arizonans rely on or cause a government shutdown.”

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