Collins continues to cost Mainers their health care
Augusta, Maine – Today, on National Rural Health Day, Maine Democratic Party spokesperson Tommy Garcia released the following statement on Susan Collins ongoing threat to rural Mainers’ health care access:
“Susan Collins continues to pose a grave threat to rural Mainers’ health care. Collins greenlit cuts to Medicaid that will force hospitals to close and force thousands to lose their coverage, and her refusal to extend ACA tax credits is sending insurance rates skyrocketing across Maine.”
See more on Collins’ record threatening rural Mainers’ health care access from the past few months alone:
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Collins served as a “key” “pivotal vote” to advance the toxic GOP tax bill that will force 61,000 Mainers to lose their health care coverage and force multiple rural Maine hospitals to shut down. Medicaid cuts have already forced primary care clinics to close, leaving “800 patients in Aroostook and Hancock counties […] to find new primary care providers.”
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Collins refused to include an ACA tax credit extension in the deal to reopen the government and repeatedly voted against a bill that would have prevented premiums from skyrocketing.
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Collins called efforts to extend ACA tax credits and save health care for tens of thousands of Mainers “poison pills.”
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And as a result of Collins refusal to extend the ACA tax credits, more than 50,000 Mainers are expected to see their insurance premiums “double, triple or even quadruple.” According to one estimate, a 60-year-old couple making $85,000 living in Maine’s second congressional district will see premiums increase by an average 412%, $2,481 more per month.
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