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Jen Kiggans is Creating a Health Care Crisis in Virginia

Kiggans voted to gut Medicaid and shut down health care clinics. Now she has fled Washington as Virginians face rising health care costs.
Health care clinics forced to shut their doors. Skyrocketing health care costs. And 350,000 Virginians could lose their health care coverage.

That’s the health care crisis that Republican Congresswoman Jen Kiggans has unleashed on Virginia. 

Here’s what Virginians are reading about the Kiggans-induced health care crisis:

In July, Kiggans voted for Trump’s budget law, which included $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid and other federal health programs. She did so after signing a letter to GOP leaders in April promising she would “not support a final reconciliation bill that includes any reduction in Medicaid coverage for vulnerable populations.”

Approximately 350,000 Virginians may lose health care coverage, primarily from Medicaid, according to Ashley Apple, commissioner of government relations for the Virginia Nurses Association […]

Augusta Medical Group has already closed an urgent care clinic and two primary care clinics in response to the federal legislation, according to a press release.

[…] Kiggans has already shown where she stands by voting to let the tax credits expire when she supported the One Big Beautiful Bill. Extending the tax credits without making them permanent just delays the pain Americans will feel and does not get to the root of the problem, said US Rep. Bobby Scott of Virginia’s 3rd congressional district.

Exactly two months after President Donald Trump signed his policy megabill in a July 4 celebration at the White House, a Virginia health care company blamed the law for the closure of three rural clinics serving communities along the Blue Ridge Mountains.

The closures, Augusta Medical Group said in its statement, were part of the company’s “ongoing response to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and the resulting realities for healthcare delivery.”

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