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Statement

‘Sabotage, Plain and Simple’

September 1, 2017
Health Care

Lisa Lederer, 202-371-1996

Statement from Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, executive director and CEO of MomsRising, a national online and on-the-ground organization of more than 1 million mothers and their families, on the Trump administration’s decision to slash funding for navigators and promotion for the Affordable Care Act’s next open enrollment period
“Slashing funding for the advertising that drives consumers to the health insurance marketplace by 90 percent and gutting funding for the navigators who help people purchase insurance plans is a flagrant attempt to drive down enrollment and to sabotage the Affordable Care Act (ACA). If it stands, this action will destabilize the federal health insurance marketplace and undermine the ACA. It is sabotage, plain and simple – and it’s an insult to the American people who have stood up to show overwhelming support for the ACA.
 
“President Trump has a responsibility to improve our health care system, not to sabotage it. The ACA has been a tremendous success, driving our country’s uninsured rate to a historic low, decreasing medical bankruptcy by half, and helping families across the nation – many of whom had never before been insured – gain quality, affordable coverage. Despite overwhelming public support for it, the Trump administration is aggressively trying to cause the ACA to fail after America’s families stopped the most recent attempt to repeal it. This is a disgraceful attempt to advance a political agenda without regard for the very real harm it will cause to the health and wellbeing America’s families, communities and our economy.
 
“The country does not want the ACA to be repealed or sabotaged. This is an assault on our health care and, like so much of what the Trump administration does, it will hurt low-income and vulnerable families, people with disabilities, the elderly, and those who live in rural and medically underserved communities most – with a compounding impact in Black, Latinx, Asian, Native American, and LGBTQ+ communities. We urge the administration to reconsider these destructive cuts.”
 

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MomsRising.org is an on-the-ground and online grassroots organization of more than a million people who are working to increase family economic security, decrease discrimination against women and moms, and to build a nation where businesses and families can thrive. Established in 2006, MomsRising and its members are organizing and speaking out to improve public policy and to change the national dialogue on issues that are critically important to America’s families, including criminal justice reform, immigration policy reform, and gun safety. MomsRising is working for paid family and medical leave, affordable, high quality childcare and early learning, and for an end to the wage and hiring discrimination which penalizes women — particularly moms and women of color — and so many others. MomsRising advocates for access to healthy food for all kids, health care for all, earned sick days, and breastfeeding rights so that all children can have a healthy start. MomsRising maintains a Spanish language website: MamásConPoder.org. Sign up online at www.MomsRising.org — and follow us on our blog, and on Twitter and Facebook.