DCCC Statement on JD Vance Visiting ME-02 While Paul LePage and Washington Republicans Gut Mainers’ Health Care

“JD Vance’s trip to Bangor is just another desperate attempt to distract Mainers from the war Paul LePage and his extremist buddies in Washington are waging on their health care. If Vance wants to talk about scams, he should talk about Republicans’ Big, Ugly Bill, which is already kicking tens of thousands of Mainers off Medicaid, putting rural hospitals across the district at risk of closure, and gutting Maine’s health care system to fund massive tax breaks to billionaires. Mainers see right through this charade and know that unlike LePage, Joe Baldacci will fight to protect their health care in Washington — not cheer on the politicians dismantling it.”

THE REAL SCAM: What Paul LePage’s Big, Ugly Bill means for ME-02:

• Strips health care from over 25,000 ME-02 residents, with 34,000 Mainers statewide expected to lose Medicaid coverage this year and next.
• Puts hospitals in Calais, Presque Isle, Caribou, and Ellsworth at risk of closing.
• Guts $27 million in annual revenue from Northern Light Health — which operates nine hospitals, a medical group, nursing homes and several dozen primary care locations across Maine.
• Rips food off the tables of over 50,000 Maine families while raising costs on everything from groceries to prescription drugs.

MEANWHILE: Extremist Paul LePage has spent his entire career attacking Mainers’ health care:

• Called the Big, Ugly Bill “the greatest thing that can happen to the Maine people,” and said he would’ve voted for it himself.
• As governor, proposed cutting 65,000 Mainers off Medicaid early in his tenure.
• Vetoed Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act SIX TIMES.
• Was sued for disregarding the will of Maine voters by refusing to expand Medicaid coverage to 80,000 low-income Mainers after voters overwhelmingly approved expansion at the ballot.

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