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Donald Trump and Ryan Zinke’s Extreme Agenda? Take Away Your Health Care

This weekend, Ryan Zinke’s former boss Donald Trump loudly proclaimed his promise to rip health care away from millions of Americans, saying Republicans ‘should never give up’ their goal of repealing Obamacare. Ryan Zinke is already putting Trump’s plan into action – the Republican Study Committee, which Zinke is a member of, has put ACA programs on the chopping block.

Repealing the Affordable Care Act would:

  • End critical protections for at least 152,000 Montanans with pre-existing conditions, allowing insurance companies to deny them coverage.

  • Allow insurance companies to reinstate annual and lifetime spending limits on coverage.

  • Put 168,000 Montanans’ health insurance at risk.

  • Threaten coverage for 177,000 Montana families who rely on Medicaid.

  • Massively increase costs for seniors and people with disabilities who receive home care.

  • Cut access to substance abuse treatment and mental health care.

  • Force hundreds of rural hospitals to close.

Just days after Trump’s attack on Montanans’ health care, Zinke endorsed his former boss and made his loyalty crystal clear.

DCCC Spokesperson Mallory Payne:
“Ryan Zinke will always stand with his former boss Donald Trump. There’s no doubt he’s all-in on his spectacularly unpopular plan to take health care away from Montanans, raising costs and threatening lives. His extremism and cruelty will cost them the majority next year.”

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