The enhanced ACA tax credits expired and enrollment fell 12% nationwide — 32% in Ohio and Oklahoma. Here is the collapse state by state, and the fourteen Republicans who voted for it.
Alabama's ACA enrollment fell 23% after Congress let the enhanced tax credits expire. Four Alabama Republicans voted for a bill that didn't extend them, one skipped the vote, and Tommy Tuberville helped filibuster the real fix.
Lahn ran the Koch group's Montana branch and fought Medicaid expansion there. Now he runs for Iowa governor as an anti-corporate populist — while Koch is one of four firms holding 84% of North America's nitrogen fertilizer capacity.
ACA enrollment in Wisconsin fell 16% after Republicans let the enhanced subsidies expire. A DeForest childcare owner doubled her insurance stipend, lost staff and closed a classroom. Tiffany is defending the vote.
Roughly $900 billion cut from Medicaid, plus expired ACA subsidies, has stripped coverage from about 8 million people. These seven wrote the rules, broke written promises, or voted for the cuts and then backed bills to clean up the damage.
A bill in Congress would point state Medicaid fraud investigators at the people who apply for Medicaid. Right now those investigators chase companies that overbill and caregivers who hurt patients — and they bring back $4.64 for every $1 they cost.
Records obtained by Nebraska Public Media show what Pillen's 5% squeeze looks like on the ground: a DeafBlind support program discontinued, museum admission raised on kids, and a proposal to make low-income seniors and disabled Nebraskans start paying property tax.
A third of central Appalachian coal miners with 25 years underground now have black lung. The rule that would have cut their dust exposure in half is frozen in court because the Trump administration declined to defend it. Southwest Virginia's congressman chairs the House health subcommittee.
Harshbarger celebrated the new CMS rule cutting off Medicaid and CHIP for gender-affirming care for minors — then said she won't stop until Congress passes her STOP Act, which bans the care outright with $100,000 penalties per violation.
