Republicans are threatening access to affordable healthcare as food and housing costs rise

Iam a senior, but long-ago, I had civics in my public school, and I know that what’s going on is a betrayal of American taxpayers. Working families are already stretched to the limit with rising costs for necessities like food and child care—we can’t afford for health care premiums to skyrocket, too.

Meanwhile, SNAP is gone.

Housing prices are escalating. Groceries have never been more expensive. Small family farms are being forced to sell to ag-corporations.

Medicare and Social Security are under threat. While millions of families are starting to sign up for health insurance for next year, they’re learning that their health care premiums are doubling or tripling—an increase too many families can’t afford.

This heist of taxpayer dollars was engineered by billionaires, using social medi