Rep. Jared Huffman Joins Protect Our Care CA to Discuss the Anniversary of the GOP ‘Big, Ugly Bill’ Becoming Law and the Trump-GOP Health Care Crisis

Rep. Jared Huffman Joins Protect Our Care CA to Discuss the Anniversary of the GOP 'Big, Ugly Bill' Becoming Law and the Trump-GOP Health Care Crisis

One Year Ago, Republicans Cut $1 Trillion From Health Care to Fund Tax Cuts for Billionaires and Big Corporations

Eureka, CA - Ahead of the one year anniversary of the Big, Ugly Bill's passage, Rep. Jared Huffman and hospital leader Matt Rees joined Protect Our Care CA today to hold Republicansaccountable for creating a full-on health care crisis and putting access to health care at risk for over 15 million Californians.

Watch the full event here.

Last summer, President Donald Trump and Republicans rubber-stamped over $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in favor of tax breaks for billionaires and big corporations.

The results have already been catastrophic, and things will only get worse. Nearly 15 million people nationwide, including 1.7 million Californians, are set to lose coverage while premiums and out-of-pocket costs have spiked for working families, forcing them to delay and forgo health care just to pay rent and put food on the table.The disastrous cuts put the entire state's health care system at risk as rural health care facilities, nursing homes, and community health centers have been forced to cut services or close for good, threatening lifesaving health care access for all Californians. Emergency departments

become fewer and farther between, seniors lose access to long-term care, people with

disabilities face devastating disruptions to critical services, and expectant mothers must travel farther for maternity care. Speakers shared how Republican cuts have wreaked havoc onCalifornia's health care system and called on their elected leaders to reverse course.

"These cuts put terrible strain on our community clinics, on healthcare providers, on rural health systems that are already stretched thin," said Congressman Jared Huffman. "It means families are struggling to afford prescriptions and will face terrible choices. It means greater uncertainty for seniors, people with disabilities, and working families who depend on Medicaid to access the care that they need."

"With these cuts, it will cause a discontinuation of services that's going to continue to close rural hospitals - a third of which have already closed in the country," said CEO of SoHumHealth Matt Rees.

"If we close, there's going to be a huge gap in care. Some of the people in our area are

going to be two to three hours away from care and it's not acceptable."

You can watch the full event here, and learn more about the Trump-GOP health crisis here.

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