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NEW DATA: 70,000 Arizonans Drop ACA Coverage Thanks to Juan Ciscomani

Ciscomani refused to extend ACA tax credits despite warning there would be “massive” consequences that would cause “real harm” for Arizonans
Roughly 70,000 fewer Arizonans signed up for Affordable Care Act coverage this year after Juan Ciscomani and his Republican colleagues failed to extend crucial tax credits that lower premiums, new federal data shows.

Ciscomani spent months warning that failing to renew the ACA tax credits would cause “massive” consequences and “real harm” for Arizonans. He even went so far to say that “doing nothing is not an option.”

Ciscomani then, of course, did nothing while members of both parties tried to extend the tax credits for three years.
Ciscomani’s ACA flip-flop came months after he voted for the largest cuts to Medicaid in history, which are expected to kick 300,000 more Arizonans off their health care and cost Southern Arizona hospitals roughly $110 MILLION a year. Ciscomani previously promised Arizonans he “cannot and will not” cut Medicaid, even declaring that doing so “threatens access to coverage” and “jeopardizes the stability of our hospitals and providers.”

DCCC Spokesperson Lindsay Reilly:
“Juan Ciscomani sold Arizonans out to pay for tax cuts for billionaires. Now, thousands are without health insurance, hospitals across the state could close, and countless health care workers could lose their jobs. Arizonans will remember Ciscomani’s betrayal at the ballot box in November.”
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