Special to the Press-Citizen
President Donald Trump promised to bring down prices, then quickly backtracked .
Iowans are worse off, but U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks does as he asks anyway. She voted for a plan that slashes roughly $1.1 trillion from Medicaid and the ACA marketplaces over the next decade. These cuts will have a direct and devastating impact on Iowans who rely on affordable coverage. Miller-Meeks has broken her promise to voters when she said she wouldn’t support cutting Medicaid.
Republicans are driving up costs and taking health care away from the very people they swore to protect.
An estimated 16 million Americans, including nearly 107,000 Iowans, will lose their health care as a result of the Republican budget bill, and it will raise costs for millions more.