- Congress will vote on renewing the ACA premium tax credit tomorrow, which the GOP let expire on December 31st.
- Over 270,000 Wisconsinites saw their health care prices increase as a result of the credits expiring.
- Tom Tiffany, Derrick Van Orden, and Bryan Steil previously voted against continuing these credits.
MADISON, Wis. — Today, the U.S. House — including Wisconsin GOP Reps. Tom Tiffany, Derrick Van Orden, and Bryan Steil — will vote on extending the ACA’s enhanced premium tax credits for three years. On December 31, Republicans let these tax credits expire, leading more than 270,000 Wisconsinites to see their health care premiums double or even triple in some cases. If Republicans like Tiffany, Van Orden, and Steil vote against these extensions, Wisconsin families will suffer.
“Wisconsin’s entire Republican congressional delegation has repeatedly failed Wisconsinites when it comes to providing protections for those who rely on the ACA for affordable care,” said Democratic Party of Wisconsin spokesperson Philip Shulman. “They have a chance today to rectify their actions and vote for Wisconsin’s working class, but history has taught us that these guys will continue to destroy this program any chance they get.”
From day one, House Democrats have been unwavering in their commitment to ensure every Wisconsinite has access to affordable health care. Meanwhile, Wisconsin House Republicans have repeatedly refused to join Democrats in lowering health care costs for working families.
See below for more information on Wisconsin Republicans disastrous health care records:
WI-07 Rep. Tom Tiffany
- As a State Senator, he was outspoken in his support for Scott Walker’s decision to not accept federal funds for Badgercare expansion.
- In 2019, Tiffany voted against expanding Badgercare.
- In Congress, he voted against the State Health Care Premium Reduction Act which incentivized state Medicaid expansion and allowed prescription drug price negotiation under Medicare.
- Tiffany said that the Affordable Care Act has “harmed the rest of America.”
- Tom Tiffany helped write a plan that would raise the age of eligibility for Medicare and Social Security.
- Tiffany supports raising the retirement age.
- Tiffany co-sponsored a bill to eliminate minimum staffing requirements for long-term care facilities receiving Medicaid.
- Tiffany cheered on Ron Johnson as he tried to make steeper cuts to health care in the Big Ugly Bill.
WI-03 Rep. Derrick Van Orden
- Derrick Van Orden was a key vote in passing the GOP’s Big Ugly Bill, which could rip health care away from over 32,000 of his constituents and put a rural hospital at risk of closing in his district.
- After voting for and celebrating these cuts, Van Orden tried to save face by lying, claiming that he secured additional funding for Wisconsin’s Medicaid program.
- 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.
WI-01 Rep. Bryan Steil
- Steil voted in favor of the GOP’s Big Ugly Bill, which threatens health care for nearly 33,000 of his constituents.
- Steil falsely claimed that the ACA was “ripe with waste, fraud, and abuse.”
- Bryan Steil voted against H.R 986, a bill that would make it harder for states to end protection for pre-existing conditions
