Hinson claims to support ‘available and affordable’ health care, but is complicit in Republican efforts to destroy the Affordable Care Act
Yesterday, the Des Moines Register Editorial Board made a strong case for Republicans to withdraw their latest challenge to the Affordable Care Act and finally give up their decade-long battle to rip health care away from millions of Iowans and Americans who need it.
If only Ashley Hinson would listen.
…[Republicans] should try to persuade [Trump] to put an end to a lawsuit that could destroy the Affordable Care Act.
The Supreme Court is set to hear the case this fall. It was brought by Republican-led states and backed by the Trump administration. The result could be striking down most or all of the health reform law, which would have disastrous consequences for Iowans.
Along with other Americans, we could lose the expansion of Medicaid and federal subsidies that help Iowans pay for private insurance. We could lose protections for people with preexisting conditions and coverage for young adults under their parents’ health insurance.
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In the middle of a pandemic, this shouldn’t be a controversial argument. Yet Ashley Hinson seems to be more worried about satisfying her Washington Republican backers than speaking out to protect the health care of 316,500 people in IA-01 with pre-existing conditions.
For the last four years as a state representative, she has failed to demonstrate any form of independence from her party as Washington Republicans continue to try to destroy the entire Affordable Care Act — including the Medicaid expansion that she previously called “a good program” and which provides care to hundreds of thousands of Iowans.
If Hinson really cared about “available and affordable” health care as she once said, she would show some independence from Washington Republicans and call for an end to this lawsuit.
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