Hinson and Miller-Meeks Irresponsibly Voted Against Delaying Medicare Cuts Set to Start January 1st, Threatening Rural Health Care Access in Iowa
This week, Reps. Ashley Hinson and Mariannette Miller-Meeks took a massive gamble with Iowans’ Medicare and the U.S. economy.
According to Moody’s Analytics and the Bipartisan Policy Center, Hinson and Miller-Meeks’ dangerous and reckless “NO” vote on raising the debt limit could have immediate and urgent consequences, including:
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Billions of dollars in impending Medicare cuts to rural hospitals, doctors, and other providers
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Delaying earned benefits like Social Security and Medicare
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Costing 6 million jobs
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Surging unemployment to 9 percent
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Jeopardizing our military servicemembers’ paychecks
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Threatening the economic progress President Biden and House Democrats have made in pandemic recovery
While Democrats voted to suspend automatic cuts to Medicare set to start January 1st, nearly every Republican, including Ashley Hinson and Mariannette Miller-Meeks, voted to keep those cuts in place, threatening the critical health care services that Iowa seniors depend on.
DCCC Spokesperson Elena Kuhn:
“Iowans need and deserve better representation than the likes of Ashley Hinson and Marainnette Miller-Meeks, who are willing to throw them and the U.S. economy under the bus when the stakes could not be higher. Hinson and Miller-Meeks owe Iowa families, seniors, and small businesses an answer for why they recklessly threatened rural health care access, Medicare benefits, and jobs.”
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