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Protect Our Care @protectourcare.org · 35m

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 · 50m

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 · 20h

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!

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Protect Our Care @protectourcare.org · 22h

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 · 22h

Our health care is on the line.

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Protect Our Care @protectourcare.org · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

“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 · 1d

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 · 2d

There it is.

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Protect Our Care @protectourcare.org · 1d

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 · 1d

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...

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Protect Our Care @protectourcare.org · 1d

“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 · 1d

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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Protect Our Care @protectourcare.org · 1d

🚨 Virginia hospitals are being hit from both sides — a GOP plan slashing Medicaid and a government shutdown blocking billions in funding.

When hospitals lose support, patients lose care. We can’t afford this double punch.

Shutdown and Medicaid cuts deal one-two punch to Virginia hospitals

Medicaid coverage remains intact during the shutdown, but safety-net hospitals nationwide could lose billions.

www.axios.com

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Protect Our Care @protectourcare.org · 1d

The GOP’s health care betrayal keeps getting worse.

Republicans hijacked America’s health care to hand billionaires massive tax breaks — and now their shutdown is putting care for millions at risk.

Families pay the price while the rich cash in.

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Protect Our Care @protectourcare.org · 5d

📈 Health care premiums are spiking in Virginia, Idaho, and Georgia.

💸 Virginia Beach: +$1,295/month
💸 Boise: +$1,472/month
💸 Fulton County: +$2,064/month

These numbers don’t lie—and families are paying the price.

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Protect Our Care @protectourcare.org · 4d

🚨 A couple making $85K in NY-17 could see their monthly health premiums jump from $498 → $1,613 if ACA tax credits expire.

That’s more than triple the cost—on Mike Lawler’s watch.

Families can’t afford this hike. Congress must act.

#NY17

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Protect Our Care @protectourcare.org · 4d

No one can afford to lose their health care.

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Protect Our Care @protectourcare.org · 5d

Hakeem Jeffries: Republicans have shown no interest in doing anything responsible to address the health care crisis that they've created. They've already enacted this massive tax break for their billionaire donors while taking health care away from more than 14 million Americans—enough already.

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Annie Shoup @shoupshouts.bsky.social · 5d

⬇️ This is what the Trump/GOP shutdown is all about. Premiums are going through the roof for hardworking Americans across the country. Folks window shopping for plans in GA, ID, and VA can already see the difference.

The Republicans created this health care crisis and they need to fix it!

Protect Our Care @protectourcare.org · 5d

📈 Health care premiums are spiking in Virginia, Idaho, and Georgia.

💸 Virginia Beach: +$1,295/month
💸 Boise: +$1,472/month
💸 Fulton County: +$2,064/month

These numbers don’t lie—and families are paying the price.

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Protect Our Care @protectourcare.org · 5d

📈 Health care premiums are spiking in Virginia, Idaho, and Georgia.

💸 Virginia Beach: +$1,295/month
💸 Boise: +$1,472/month
💸 Fulton County: +$2,064/month

These numbers don’t lie—and families are paying the price.

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Protect Our Care @protectourcare.org · 5d

All Americans deserve the right to high-quality, affordable, and equitable health care.

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Protect Our Care @protectourcare.org · 5d

A family making $85,000 could see premiums soar to $24,000 a year if Republicans let ACA tax credits expire.

That’s a crushing health care tax on the middle class. Families can’t afford it—and they shouldn’t have to. #ProtectOurCare

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Protect Our Care @protectourcare.org · 5d

Pete Buttigieg: We have to decide what our health care policy is and yeah, part of that is anti-Trump because Trump like ripping out Medicaid and making your premiums go up by getting rid of the Obamacare subsidies makes health care more expensive for you.

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