| Arizona’s health care industry is continuing to sound the alarm on how David Schweikert, Eli Crane, and Juan Ciscomani’s decision to gut Medicaid to pay for tax cuts for billionaires will “hurt every Arizonan.”
Because of Schweikert, Crane, and Ciscomani, Arizonans can expect:
- Higher health care premiums,
- Longer wait times at the emergency room,
- Reduced health care services,
- Fewer health care jobs.
Yikes.
DCCC Spokesperson Lindsay Reilly:
“David Schweikert, Eli Crane, and Juan Ciscomani sold off Arizonans’ health care to fund tax breaks for billionaires. Voters will hold them accountable next November.”
In case you missed it:
Arizona Mirror: Trump’s Medicaid cuts will hurt every Arizonan, not just those who lose coverage
- Medicaid cuts… will mean higher premiums, longer wait times and reduced services for everyone in Arizona, local health care leaders said Thursday.
- The new spending law means an estimated 300,000 Arizonans are expected to lose coverage.
- Health care officials stressed that everyone who relies on the health care system will feel the impact of Medicaid cuts — even if they have private insurance.
- More people will wait to see a doctor until it’s an emergency, and hospitals will be on the hook to provide that more expensive care. That could lead hospitals to make tough decisions to close departments and lay off staff.
- Those cuts and others, including to food assistance programs, were implemented to pay for tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy.
- Kohler estimated that the state will have to spend tens of millions of dollars developing infrastructure to determine whether participants meet work requirements or qualify for an exemption.
- Although the people who lose their coverage will likely be the hardest hit, everyone will feel the effects.
- Helena Whitney, a vice president at the Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association: “It’s every other person who’s also in the emergency department, who has their own private health insurance. If you’re waiting five hours today in the (emergency department) to get seen, you can double and triple that.”
- Ray Ochoa, an assistant chief for the Phoenix Fire Department, said that people can expect Medicaid cuts to impact ambulance services, as well, with first responder agencies eating more costs from patients who can’t pay.
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