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After months of empty promises and political posturing, Mike Lawler (to no one’s surprise) just voted AGAIN to obliterate access to health care, raise costs, cut jobs, threaten local hospitals, and devastate the state health care system — all to fund massive tax breaks for billionaires and big corporations.
Lawler has been lying to his constituents for months: first repeatedly promising he wouldn’t support any legislation that included Medicaid cuts, then claiming the tax scam would protect and strengthen Medicaid, and finally sending a letter to the Senate begging them to scale back Medicaid cuts he already voted for.
In NY-17 alone, Lawler’s vote for the Big, Ugly Bill will put over 32,000 of his own constituents at risk of losing their health care, kill nearly 3,000 health care jobs, and result in a $616 million loss for the local economy.
Here’s what Lawler’s vote will mean for New York:
- According to the state Department of Health, the bill will leave 1.5 million New Yorkers uninsured and result in a $13.5 billion loss annually for New York’s healthcare system.
- New York health care leaders have warned that the staggering losses — totaling $7 billion in cuts to New York hospitals every year — would be “unsustainable” and leave the state’s hospital system unrecognizable.
- The Greater New York Hospital Association says the bill “would devastate New York hospitals and their patients, employees and communities,” resulting in over 63,000 lost health care jobs.
- New York hospitals are set to lose $7 billion — putting 11 rural hospitals at risk of closing, threatening funding for 75 hospitals that are already in financial distress, and already forcing layoffs and cuts to vital health care programs.
- State analysis shows New York families will see their health insurance costs skyrocket by 38% and monthly costs will increase by more than $228.
DCCC Spokesperson Riya Vashi:
“Mike Lawler is a spineless liar who will say anything to get elected and do anything to stay in power. Cowardice has consequences — and come November, New Yorkers will vote him out.”
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