| Recent reporting from LoHud reveals that one Peekskill resident saw her insurance premium spike by $10,000 to nearly $29,000 a year because Mike Lawler and House Republicans failed to take action before the ACA tax credits expired late last year.
The Lower Hudson Valley native, who is now being forced to dip into her retirement savings to pay for health care coverage, is just one of about 140,000 New Yorkers who faced a nearly 40% average cost spike after Lawler joined his big party bosses in refusing to extend these critical cost-saving tax credits.
Let’s not forget: Mike Lawler first unleashed this health care crisis on New Yorkers when he voted to pass the largest cuts to Medicaid in history in Trump’s Big, Ugly Bill – slashing over $100 million in Hudson Valley hospital revenue and causing health care costs to skyrocket for 220,000 New Yorkers.
DCCC Spokesperson Riya Vashi:
“Mike Lawler talks a big game about lowering costs, but when Hudson Valley families needed him to act, he stood by his big party bosses and let health care costs explode. Lawler’s complete and utter failure to take action when there was still time to save the ACA tax credits is devastating the very voters he claims to represent.”
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