SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) - Louisiana congressman Cleo Fields is speaking out about the government shutdown. Fields said Democrats are fighting to protect millions of Americans from losing access to their health care and paying higher costs.

Fields said residents should be aware that millions of people are being taken off Medicaid under the provisions of the "Big Beautiful Bill" and post-pandemic unwinding measures, so they will lose their health insurance coverage a year from now. He said that without Congress renewing the Affordable Health Care premium tax credits, insurance rates will skyrocket.

"Those notices started going out on November 1. Now people are going to their mailboxes and seeing their premiums increasing by two times. Now they understand what the fight is all about. Lo

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