Millions Face Higher Health Care Costs, Loss of Coverage Due to Schweikert & Ciscomani

PHOENIX — Millions of Americans are facing health care costs higher than their mortgage payments, and millions more are expected to lose coverage in the coming years because of Congressman Schweikert and Ciscomani's voting record.

Last summer, Schweikert and Ciscomani voted to kick millions of low-income Americans off of Medicaid coverage – or AHCCCS here in Arizona. In December, they and their colleagues let cost-saving health care tax credits expire, before voting against reinstating them this year.

According to the Wall Street Journal:

“Millions of Americans are starting to see their monthly health-insurance bills rise, a new pressure point for a nation still frustrated with the high cost of living.

Many of those facing the most substantial dollar increases are middle-income Americans who buy health insurance through the marketplaces set up by the government’s Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare.

Expanded subsidies for those insured under the ACA expired on Dec. 31—the central battle in last year’s record-long government shutdown. That shutdown ended with no resolution on the subsidies, and lawmakers haven’t passed legislation to revive them.

Now, the newly calculated insurance bills are coming due, and Americans are having to figure out how to pay up, or go without.”

“Congressman Ciscomani has voted multiple times in opposition to lowering health care costs for families like mine; recipients of the affordable care act. Congressman Ciscomani has made it clear that he does not represent me and my family, said Nicki Velasquez, a mother from Cochise County whose health care coverage increased by over $1,000 so far this year. “He needs to represent his constituents instead of consistently voting against us and our interests.”

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