After Democrats Sweep Tuesday Elections, Will Republicans Finally Stop Going After the ACA? No. Probably Not.
Van Orden’s campaign website once called for “the last vestiges of the disastrous Obamacare” to be removed.
MADISON, Wis. — As the GOP drags the government shutdown into its 6th week, hoping that starving children, veterans, and the elderly will force Democrats to cut health care funding, voters are making clear that this malicious approach is political poison. Voters from Georgia to Virginia to Ohio embraced Democratic visions focusing on voters’ actual needs and not online Twitter wars.
Enter America’s strongest keyboard warrior Derrick Van Orden, who, in a rare moment, came out of hiding to do a TV interview where he twice refused to say if the ACA subsidies should be extended. If Van Orden gets his way, a couple over 60 could see their ACA premiums increase by over $33,000, and similarly, a family of four could see an increase of over $25,000.
“Derrick Van Orden ran for Congress on the promise of getting rid of the Affordable Care Act, and now he’s literally starving children, veterans, and the elderly, to try and accomplish his mission,” said Democratic Party spokesperson Philip Shulman. “So while DC Derrick enjoys his taxpayer funded health care and fires off tweets threatening to defund rural health care centers, his constituents are figuring out if they’ll have to pay for health care or heating this winter.”
Similarly, Tom Tiffany, Bryan Steil, and the entire GOP delegation are refusing to address the reality that cutting ACA funding will do to their constituents.
Additional Background:
- Derrick Van Orden supports the full repeal of the Affordable Care Act, which would threaten affordable health insurance coverage for over 313,000 Wisconsinites who are currently enrolled in an ACA insurance plan.
- Van Orden’s campaign website once called for “the last vestiges of the disastrous Obamacare” to be removed.
- Van Orden voted in favor of the Limit, Save, Grow Act, which would have limited health care access for 116,600 veterans.
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