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Vulnerable Arizona Republican Eli Crane is feeling the heat back home after he voted to jeopardize health care for nearly a third of his own constituents who rely on Medicaid.
Multiple hospitals in Crane’s district – including Page Hospital, Winslow Memorial Hospital, and Cobre Valley Regional Medical Center – are also at risk of closing because of Crane’s and Congressional Republicans’ plan to gut health care to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.
It’s no wonder why Crane is refusing to talk to the press about the bill…
DCCC Spokesperson Lindsay Reilly:
“Eli Crane sealed his political fate when he voted to kick thousands of his own constituents off their health care to pay for tax cuts for billionaires. He might as well file his pink slip now.”
See for yourself…
White Mountain Independent: To Eli Crane
- Are you a man of the people of Arizona or a billionaire?
- Passing the budget bill before you will shutter Summit Hospital and several rural hospitals across Arizona. Taking almost a trillion dollars out of healthcare in the US is going to have a devastating effect … and why? To give the rich a tax break on the backs of your constituents.
- Have you been in contact with rural Arizona hospitals to see if this is true? Ask them what percent of their revenues comes from Medicaid patients. Numbers don’t lie.
- With the Medicare cuts, our rural hospitals will close. It can be long way from CG-2 to Phoenix to receive emergency healthcare.
- This bill is going to kill Arizonans.
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- The bill cuts federal Medicaid spending by $930 billion. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates it will push 12 million people off Medicaid. Other analysts expect it to force many rural health care facilities to close.
- An analysis from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation released Tuesday found that the impending cuts would drive 234,000 people off Medicaid in Arizona, ranging from 23,000 in the district of Rep. Greg Stanton, D-Phoenix, to 31,000 in the district held by Rep. Eli Crane.
- The Congressional Budget Office projects the bill will add $3.3 trillion to the national debt over the next decade. Other estimates top $5 trillion.
- Crane’s district, the biggest in the state, covering all of northeast Arizona, has 275,300 residents on Medicaid — roughly a third of the population.
- Of the five rural hospitals flagged by University of North Carolina researchers as being at risk for closure due to the Medicaid cuts, three are in Crane’s district.
- He declined repeated attempts to discuss the impacts on his district and its hospitals.
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