Citizen Action Celebrates 13th Anniversary of Affordable Care Act |
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Written by Citizen Action of Wisconsin, Robert Kraig |
Thursday, 23 March 2023 15:56 |
http://newiprogressive.com/images/stories/S5/health_care_day_2_1_15_17-s5.jpg Milwaukee: – On the 13th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act becoming law, on behalf of our members across the state, Citizen Action of Wisconsin celebrates the record enrollment and lowered costs gained through the Inflation Reduction Act, and calling on Congress to finish the job to everyone has access to affordable coverage: After 13 years of non-stop attacks and sabotage from opponents, the Affordable Care Act has not only survived but thrived, hitting record enrollment in 2023 by providing quality, affordable coverage to over 221,128 Wisconsin State Residents and improving coverage for over 100 million Americans nationwide. Both the ACA and Medicaid were invaluable tools throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, ensuring individuals could get affordable coverage when they needed it most. But it shouldn’t take an emergency to make healthcare affordable and accessible to millions more people: Congress has the power to make permanent the increased affordability provisions and Medicaid improvements that have brought the number of uninsured people to record lows over the last year.
We support President Biden’s recently announced budget blueprint to do just that by making enhanced premium tax credits permanent in the ACA and increasing investment in Medicaid to address the current mental health and substance abuse crisis, provide home based and community care options to aging people and people with disabilities, and extending provisions to lower drug prices beyond Medicare so that people of all ages can get affordable prescription drugs. Reining in the health industry’s price-gouging and raising taxes on billionaires and tax-dodging corporations is a common sense solution to lowering costs while investing in services.
It’s time to finish the job of ensuring that everyone in America has access to quality, affordable health care by by taxing corporations that make billions in profits so we can lower healthcare costs for people of all ages, fund mental health care, increase access to treatments for substance use disorders, support rural hospitals and expand home health care while reducing the deficit at the same time. Citizen Action of Wisconsin calls on the Wisconsin Republican delegation to support the President’s plan to expand health care coverage and lower costs by finally making corporations and the very wealthy pay their fair share in taxes. *** How can antiracists ask racists to open their minds and change when |
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