Target: Robert Aderholt, Chair of U.S. House Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies
Goal: Do not further weaken healthcare accessibility for disadvantaged Americans.
Millions of Americans who need it most are about to face significantly more debt or altogether lose their healthcare coverage. While the first Trump administration ultimately failed in its efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare), the second administration has successfully stuffed several provisions into its so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” that will weaken the healthcare of disproportionately low-income individuals and families. Less Medicaid expansion, more cumbersome paperwork and verification, stricter requirements for coverage, and the expulsion of certain targeted groups (like many legal immigrants and asylum seekers who were victims of sex trafficking) are expected to leave over two million additional people without healthcare coverage within months. And people who remain enrolled in ACA plans are forecast to pay much higher premiums and out-of-pocket costs.
The effects will move beyond Americans enrolled in the Affordable Care Act. Insurers across the board are signaling a price hike of nearly 20 percent in response to the new rules. And the Congressional Budget Office is warning that Medicare cuts for seniors could total up to half a trillion dollars in the coming years. One more legislative action set to be taken up during the next Congressional session could worsen even these distressing numbers: the expiration of enhanced premium credits extended to ACA enrollees.
Sign the petition below to demand America’s representatives not take more from their most in-need constituents.
PETITION LETTER:
Dear Representative Aderholt,
By 2026, the number of uninsured Americans is expected to jump by two million. If currently passed laws remain in place, that number will climb to 16 million by 2034. When the paybacks given to states like Alabama that have refused to expand Medicaid coverage expire, the pain for your constituents will only increase. Expected across-the-board insurance premium hikes are going to take their toll as well, ACA coverage or no ACA coverage. As a representative for a state that ranks in the lowest ten for healthcare coverage and outcomes, can you really afford to let your communities down again?
Vote to extend the enhanced ACA premium tax credits that will soon expire. Stand up for and salvage at least one portion of the American healthcare framework.
Sincerely,
[Your Name Here]
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