Stop Medicaid Cuts

House Republicans have unveiled their updated plans to strip away Medicaid funding. A reminder: Medicaid covers 41% of births and over 60% of nursing home residents in the U.S. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) assessed that the proposed Medicaid cuts would leave at least 8.6 million fewer people covered. What's more, in combination with the expiration of the Affordable Care Act marketplace subsidies, the CBO estimated that a staggering 13.7 million more people would be uninsured -- and this may well be an underestimate because it assumes that states can make up more of the difference than is likely to be the case. This would needlessly put millions of people in harm's way.

To emphasize the importance of preserving Medicaid, we request that members of Defend Public Health who are in high-priority districts and states call their members of Congress and tell others in these districts to do the same. The Health Systems and Health Insurance Working Group of DPH has identified 35 Republican House districts that are highly competitive (within D+6 and R+6 according to the Cook Partisan Voter Index) as well as fairly Medicaid reliant. Also identified are some key Senate seats that are up for reelection in 2026. The House members are:

AZ-01: David Schweigert
AZ-02: Eli Crane
AZ-06: Juan Ciscomani
CA-03: Kevin Kiley
CA-22: David Valadao
CA-41: Ken Calvert
CO-08: Gabe Evans
FL-04: Aaron Bean
FL-15: Laurel Lee
FL-27: Maria Elvira Salazar
FL-28: Carlos A. Gimenez
IA-01: Mariannette Miller-Meeks
IA-03: Ashley Hinson
IA-04: Zach Nunn
MI-04: Bill Huizenga
MI-07: Tom Barrett
MI-10: John James
NC-06: Addison McDowell
NC-09: Richard Hudson
NC-13: Brad Knott
NE-02: Don Bacon
NJ-02: Jefferson Van Drew
NY-01: Nick LaLota
NY-02: Andrew Garbarino
NY-17: Michael Lawler
OH-10: Mike Turner
OH-15: Mike Carey
PA-01: Brian Fitzpatrick
PA-07: Ryan Mackenzie
PA-08: Robert Bresnahan
PA-10: Scott Perry
TX-15: Monica De La Cruz
VA-02: Jennifer Kiggans
WI-01: Bryan Steil
WI-03: Derrick Van Orden

The Senate members are:

Alaska: Dan Sullivan
Iowa: Joni Ernst
Louisiana: Bill Cassidy
Maine: Susan Collins
Montana: Steve Daines
North Carolina: Thom Tillis

You may call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with the appropriate member. We also encourage you to write to them. To be maximally effective, it is important that you contact YOUR member. With the House of Representatives especially narrowly divided, we just need to peel off a few House Republicans, emphasizing the life and death stakes of preserving Medicaid.

For more information and talking points please see Miranda Yaver’s Substack piece that outlines the bad politics, bad evidence basis, and bad policy of the proposed Medicaid cuts.

Time is of the essence. Please join this DPH effort!