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Protect Our Care @protectourcare.org · 23h

Republican Voter: I am begging you to pass this legislation. My kids could die. We don't have the credit because of the medical bills that I have to pay regularly. You could stop this...the audacity of someone who makes 6 figures a year to do this to military families is insane.

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Protect Our Care @protectourcare.org · 1d

Health care premiums are spiking across the country 📈

This plan for a 60-year-old couple making $85,000 in Fulton County, Georgia, will cost $2,064 MORE PER MONTH in 2026 than a very similar plan in 2025. 💸

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Protect Our Care @protectourcare.org · 1d

WV resident: If the ACA's tax credits go away, I’ll simply go without. I won’t have health insurance, and I won’t go to the doctor because I can’t afford to.

That’s what this fight means—life or death for real people.

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Protect Our Care @protectourcare.org · 1d

West Virginia resident: “If these enhanced tax credits expire, my monthly premiums will nearly double.”

She’s not alone. Across the country, families are opening letters from insurers showing skyrocketing costs because Congress hasn’t acted.

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Protect Our Care @protectourcare.org · 1d

“Americans are literally living in the midst of a shutdown that jeopardizes their health care, their jobs, and the services they rely on.”

Senator @bluntrochester.senate.gov is right — people need solutions, not shutdowns.

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Protect Our Care @protectourcare.org · 1d

Most people don’t lie awake thinking about government spending. They’re thinking about whether they can afford insulin, child care, or next month’s bills.

As Protect Our Care's Brad Woodhouse told @joyannreid.bsky.social — that’s the fight that actually matters.

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Protect Our Care @protectourcare.org · 1d

Health care isn’t just a policy fight. It’s the Holy Trinity of issues—because it persuades, it moves people, and it’s what families care about most.

When people can’t afford care, they lose more than coverage. They lose peace of mind. That’s why this fight still unites us.

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Protect Our Care @protectourcare.org · 1d

Chuck Schumer: First, Trump says he wants to help health care...then he goes on and says, "Let's get rid of ACA." He had no understanding. He doesn't connect the dots. He just says whatever pops into his brain.

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Protect Our Care @protectourcare.org · 1d

Brian Tyler Cohen: So unless your entire identity is just blindly supporting Trump's every whim or just trafficking in trade chaos, I cannot imagine who is out there rooting for healthcare prices to go through the roof.

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Protect Our Care @protectourcare.org · 2d

Health care premiums are spiking across the country 📈

This plan for a 60-year-old couple making $85,000 in Boise, Idaho, will cost $1,472 MORE PER MONTH in 2026 than a very similar plan in 2025. 💸

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Protect Our Care @protectourcare.org · 2d

Molly Murphy, President of Impact Research: "I do think that this is a good unifying and defining moment for Democrats to say this is what we're for, and by the way, Republicans want to take your healthcare away so badly that they will shut the government down over it."

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Protect Our Care @protectourcare.org · 2d

If Republicans let ACA tax credits expire, premiums will skyrocket. In West Virginia, Wyoming, Alaska, Tennessee, and Mississippi, they’d more than quadruple. In Texas, South Carolina, and Alabama, they’d triple.

Millions would lose affordable care overnight.

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Protect Our Care @protectourcare.org · 2d

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries: Because of the Republican refusal to extend the ACA tax credits, we know for tens of millions of Americans across the country, their premiums, co-pays, and deductibles are about to go up. That should not be the case here in America.

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Voices of Health Care Action @voicesofhealthcare.org · 2d

Why did the government shut down? Republicans in Congress failed to extend help for middle class families to afford health care, prioritizing billionaires.

Learn more from @laurapackard.com @shoupshouts.bsky.social @protectourcare.org: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyFP...

Shocking Truth About Health Coverage Costs!

YouTube video by Voices of Health Care Action

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Protect Our Care @protectourcare.org · 3d

Health care premiums are spiking across the country 📈

This plan for a 60-year-old couple making $85,000 in Virginia Beach, Virginia, will cost $1,295 MORE PER MONTH in 2026 than a very similar plan in 2025. 💸

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Protect Our Care @protectourcare.org · 3d

Our health care is on the line.

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Protect Our Care @protectourcare.org · 3d

CNN: 3 out of 4 Americans — including most Republicans — want ACA subsidies extended.

But GOP leaders shut down the government instead.

They’re not listening to voters — they’re raising your premiums.

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Protect Our Care @protectourcare.org · 3d

Schumer: If you’re a 55-year-old couple making $80,000 a year, you know how much you’ll have to pay for insurance? $25,000.

How is the average American family supposed to sit around the kitchen table on a Friday night and figure out how to pay the bills?

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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 3d

“Secretary Kennedy is entitled to his views. But he is not entitled to put people’s health at risk.”

Six former surgeons general condemn RFK Jr.

Opinion | Six surgeons general: RFK Jr. is a threat to the health of Americans

It was our duty in office to warn of dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Protect Our Care @protectourcare.org · 3d

Let’s be clear: this shutdown is a choice. Republicans chose chaos over care. They chose tax cuts for the wealthy over affordable coverage for working families. Every day it continues, people suffer—and they know it.

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Senator Tammy Baldwin @baldwin.senate.gov · 5d

There it is.

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Protect Our Care @protectourcare.org · 3d

Rep. Sara Jacobs: Just in my district, a couple that is 60 years old that makes about $82,000 a year, their premiums will go up by $15,000 if these premium tax credits aren't extended. That means they're going to forgo medical treatment — and that makes all of us worse off.

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Protect Our Care @protectourcare.org · 3d

More than half of ACA enrollees live in Republican districts.

Millions of families in red states rely on the Affordable Care Act for care they can afford.

If Congress lets the enhanced tax credits expire, they’ll all pay the price.

More Than Half of ACA Marketplace Enrollees Live in Republican Congressional Districts

Since the enhanced premium tax credits became available in 2021, ACA Marketplace enrollment has increased significantly in some red states, and 57% of enrollees now live in Republican congressional di...

www.kff.org

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Protect Our Care @protectourcare.org · 3d

“She’s going to see a 70% increase—70% increase—in her health care premiums.”

That’s one American’s reality under Trump’s failed economic policies.

While families struggle with higher costs, Trump’s chaos keeps making it worse.

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Rep. Brendan Boyle @congressmanboyle.bsky.social · 4d

Trump and Republicans refuse to negotiate and have canceled session again this week.

Republicans don't want to reopen the government — they are happy to kick millions of Americans off their health care and let premiums skyrocket for millions more.

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