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IA-01 Nurse Manager: “House Republicans and Miller-Meeks voted to take health care from millions of people including seniors, kids, and veterans to pay for more tax giveaways to the wealthy and corporations.”
After Mariannette Miller-Meeks cast a pivotal YES vote last week to advance the largest cuts in Medicaid history so she could pay for tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy, physicians and health care workers across IA-01 are criticizing her reckless vote that:
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Physicians in the Committee to Protect Health Care urged House members from their districts, including Miller-Meeks, to oppose the House GOP’s budget bill and criticized them for supporting the measure. Dr. Brian Lindsay, an internal medicine physician from Cedar Rapids, said in a statement that Miller-Meeks, who is also a physician, “must be familiar with the tragic stories doctors witness every day when people aren’t able to access or afford health care.”
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“As physicians, we challenge politicians like Congresswoman Miller-Meeks to explain how taking away her own constituents’ health care makes their lives better or our community stronger,” Lindsay said in a statement. “When people can’t see a doctor or afford to get the treatment they need, people suffer, some go bankrupt because of huge medical bills and unfortunately, some people die. Every Iowan must stand up and speak out against this reckless Republican plan to take away people’s ability to get medical care so politicians can give huge handouts to billionaires.”
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“With these cuts, patients would get sicker, have fewer places to go, and have fewer healthcare workers to care for them,” Kusiak said. “House Republicans and Miller-Meeks voted to take health care from millions of people including seniors, kids, and veterans to pay for more tax giveaways to the wealthy and corporations.”
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