Myth: Action can wait because the health care tax credits don’t expire until Dec. 31.
Fact: Health insurance companies are currently finalizing their monthly premium rates. This means that people will start to see an increased price when they go to buy insurance on the marketplace when open enrollment begins on November 1st. Notices have already begun going out and will continue throughout the month, letting people
know that their premiums have skyrocketed – in some cases more than doubled. Millions will either be completely priced out of coverage or face soaring costs.
Myth: Democrats want over $1 trillion of new spending on health care for illegal aliens.
Fact: Undocumented individuals cannot purchase coverage through the Affordable
Care Act or receive Medicare or Medicaid coverage.
Myth: Democrats are taking $50 billion from rural hospitals.
Fact: The Big, Ugly Bill cut Medicaid by $1 trillion and made up 5 percent of those
cuts with a slush fund controlled by Republican politicians. Unless Congress acts,
338 hospitals across the country are at risk of closing.
Myth: The shutdown harms veterans.
Fact: Republicans are using veterans as a bargaining chip. New estimates show that 600,000 veterans will see health care premiums surge if we do not extend the health care tax credits Democrats are fighting to keep.
Myth: Democrats are forcing thousands of civil service employees to be fired.
Fact: This administration has already attempted to illegally fire hundreds of thousands of federal workers this year, many of whom they have had to hire back because they served critical government functions. Just last week, more than 4,000 federal employees received layoff notices as part of the Trump administration’s effort to reshape the government while it is shut down. The layoff notices had gone out to employees at the departments of Commerce, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Homeland Security and Treasury.
In service,
The Office of Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
