The excruciating shutdown non-debate in Washington over cuts to Medicaid funding and Affordable Care Act tax credits isn’t an abstract fight about budgets or ideology. It’s about your neighbors who will face impossible choices if Congress doesn’t act.

During a virtual roundtable last week, Colorado Democratic Sen. John Hickenlooper warned that Republican leaders’ refusal to restore funding for Medicaid and extend ACA premium tax credits would rip health care away from millions of Americans. He calls the measure “the Big Bad Betrayal Act,” estimating that 15 million people nationwide could lose coverage and that premiums for millions more could double.

Those cuts or mushrooming insurance costs would be yours, not some faceless statistic, and certainly not an “illegal immigrant” as Republi

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