"Republicans last year cut about $1 trillion over a decade from Medicaid and declined to extend COVID-era subsidies that had lowered the cost of health plans under the Affordable Care Act. Democrats are filming campaign spots outside struggling hospitals, spotlighting Americans facing spiking insurance premiums and sharing their own personal health care stories. U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff of Georgia, one of the party's most endangered incumbents this year,"
"While prices are going up and jobs are getting harder to find, they decided to let health insurance premiums double for more than 20 million Americans, including more than a million Georgians, said Ossoff, the only Democratic senator seeking reelection this year in a state that Trump won in 2024. He said 200,000 people in Georgia had lost their coverage."
"Brad Woodhouse, a Democratic strategist and executive director of advocacy group Protect Our Care, said health care is a banger of an issue for Democrats. I think it will be part of every single campaign, up and down the ballot, he said. Republicans defend their votes as reining in ballooning health spending and cracking down on what they call waste, fraud and abuse."
Democrats are prioritizing health care as a central campaign issue, focusing on Medicaid cuts, the end of COVID-era subsidies and rising insurance costs. Republicans cut about $1 trillion from Medicaid over a decade and allowed subsidies that lowered plan costs to lapse, contributing to premium increases for millions. Democratic campaigns are filming outside struggling hospitals, sharing personal health care stories and spotlighting Americans facing spiking premiums. Vulnerable incumbents like Sen. Jon Ossoff link premium increases and lost coverage to abandonment of working people. Democrats and allied advocates say health care will be a core message across the ballot, while Republicans defend cuts as efforts to rein in spending and curb waste, fraud and abuse.
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