| With poll after poll showing that the public agrees with Democrats on the need to lower monthly health care costs, Republican Gabe Evans – realizing he is losing the public’s support – has resorted to his classic strategy: lie to Coloradans.
Once again, Evans got caught.
Fox 31 is holding Evans accountable for his false, desperate claims about why he helped shut down the federal government. And Fox 31 is not the only one – ABC, CNN, NBC, the Associated Press, and the New York Times have all debunked Evans’ lies:
The truth, best summarized in one of the Fact Check stories:
The Democrats are pushing to continue more generous federal subsidies to help Americans afford Obamacare policies and to reverse deep cuts to Medicaid contained in Trump’s sweeping domestic policy agenda package. But neither of those changes would provide health coverage to undocumented immigrants, since they aren’t eligible for either program.
See for yourself…
Fox 31 Denver: Coloradans push for enhanced premium tax credit extension amid government shutdown
- Enhanced Premium Tax Credits help to lower the cost of health insurance for people on individual plans, but the state’s Insurance Commissioner said that without them, everyone will feel the impacts.
- “Unfortunately, the Democrats have painted their line in the sand as being they want more money for illegal immigrant healthcare and they do not like funds for things like securing the border right now,” said Congressman Gabe Evans.
- Colorado Insurance Commissioner Mike Conway said members of Congress making the health insurance debate on Capitol Hill about illegal immigration are wrong.
- “The increases that we are talking about they are going to impact the ACA [Affordable Care Act] market, so the individual market,” said Conway. “Undocumented Coloradans or undocumented people throughout the country aren’t eligible for tax credits. So the tax credits going away, it’s just going to impact people in the individual market. So, the average everyday American. It’s going to really hit middle-class Americans exceptionally hard. Those are the people that really going to feel that 175% average premium increase.”
- “If the Enhanced Premium Tax Credits go away, on average on the Front Range, people will see for a family of four a $13,000 increase for the entire year, so that’s about a $1,000 a month, obviously. In more rural parts of the state, we would be talking about a $25,000 premium increase so that would be about $2,000 a month,” said Conway.
- “Coloradans losing access to healthcare coverage, they are still going to get sick. They are going to still end up in the hospital. Those uncompensated healthcare costs are going to pass through to the rest of the market but everyone is going to see their premiums increase and it’s going to start happening next year,” Conway added.
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