| New reporting is exposing vulnerable Congressman Rob Wittman’s real record of opposing affordable health care and siding with Big Pharma over Virginians.
The Virginia Mercury reported that Wittman has touted the fact that he “voted 60 times to undo the Affordable Care Act” – the landmark law that has expanded access to care and protected Virginians with pre-existing conditions from being denied by greedy insurance companies.
Now, as Wittman faces the toughest election of his political career, Wittman is trying to paper over his anti-health care record. But despite his cynical eleventh hour ploy to try and deceive Virginians, it’s clear Wittman cannot be trusted: the Mercury reports that “when asked if he would back future repeal efforts, he didn’t clarify.”
Wittman’s opponent and Henrico’s top prosecutor Shannon Taylor called out Wittman for playing politics, saying: “Now, with an election around the corner and families facing higher premiums, he wants to try and change his tune… We deserve a representative who will lower costs and expand care, not one who brags about their votes to rip it away.”
Read more from the Virginia Mercury on Wittman’s real record:
 Virginia Mercury: Wittman voted 60 times to undo the Affordable Care Act. Then he backed extending its subsidies.
By Charlotte Rene Woods | September 3, 2026
- In 2017, U.S. Rep. Rob Wittman, R-Westmoreland, touted voting to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act 60 times…
- The expired subsidies have spurred 94,000 Virginians to drop their insurance so far and is the latest healthcare issue congressional candidates in Virginia and elsewhere must contend with on the campaign trail.
- With polling indicating healthcare affordability and access among top concerns for voters this year, Democrats have seized on the issue as a potentially winning platform and pushed Republicans on the defensive.
- When asked if he would back future repeal efforts, he didn’t clarify…
- Wittman’s Democratic challenger, prosecutor Shannon Taylor, doesn’t think he should get too much praise for his shift in stance.
- “Now, with an election around the corner and families facing higher premiums, he wants to try and change his tune,” she said. “We deserve a representative who will lower costs and expand care, not one who brags about their votes to rip it away.”
- Democrats have hammered Republicans all year on their failure to renew the expired subsidies as well as their votes for H.R.1, the Trump-backed reconciliation bill that entails forthcoming changes to Medicaid.
- About 300,000 Virginians are at risk of losing that health insurance next year while 5,800 lawful immigrants are guaranteed to lose it next month. The bill’s changes to hospital funding mechanisms may also contribute to potential closure or reduced services of rural hospitals and a predicted $31 billion reduction in the state’s Medicaid funding over the next decade.
- As H.R. 1 was debated, Wittman — and incumbent U.S. Rep. Jen Kiggans, R-Virginia Beach, who is running in a competitive district — pushed back on aspects of the bill, before ultimately voting for it.
- Since the passage of ACA, insurers have not been able to use a person’s health risk to determine the premiums they pay.
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