{"id":17458,"date":"2025-10-16T19:05:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T19:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=17458"},"modified":"2025-10-16T19:05:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T19:05:39","slug":"marcy-kaptur-explains-the-cost-of-gop-budget-to-ordinary-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/16\/marcy-kaptur-explains-the-cost-of-gop-budget-to-ordinary-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcy Kaptur Explains the Cost of GOP Budget to Ordinary Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Fletcher Word<\/em>
\nThe Truth Editor<\/em><\/p>\n

Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur held an information session on Thursday, October 9, at Nexus Health Care to discuss the ongoing government shutdown and to explain why the Democratic Party is insistent on ensuring that any deal on a continuing resolution to fund the government includes funding for the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) subsidies.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are in suspended animation now,\u201d said Kaptur of the current impasse that began on October 1. \u201cHealth insurance is going to become unaffordable on November 1,\u201d she added because of the impact of the recently passed provisions in the Big Beautiful Bill that President Trump insisted congressional Republicans pass.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a life and death issue for us here in Ohio, Kaptur added noting that about 500,000 Ohioans have health insurance though the ACA and that the BBB will cause premiums to rise so dramatically that many will not be able to keep that insurance.<\/p>\n

According to Americans Covered, under the GOP budget, premiums would more than double for Ohioans if the ACA Enhanced Premium Tax Credit expire. For a family of four earning $64,000, the current annual premium of $788 will rise to $2,571. For a senior couple earning $82,800 a year, the annual premium, currently $4,464, will be $15,000 under the GOP budget.<\/p>\n

Keep Americans Covered is a coalition of the health care community, representing patients, consumers, doctors, hospitals, health insurers and employers in an effort to keep health care affordable for Americans<\/em><\/p>\n

The Trump-backed BBB, said Kaptur, was designed to be \u201cthe biggest transfer of wealth from the American people to the superrich in the history of our country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kaptur noted that she does not believe that the members of Congress cannot solve the problem themselves. \u201cThe [Republican] members of Congress will not defy [Trump].\u201d<\/p>\n

She believes that the only solution is for the four congressional leaders \u2013 Democrats Sen. Chuck Schumer, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries and Republicans Sen. John Thune and Rep. Mike Johnson \u2013 to get together with Trump so that Trump himself can keep the funding for the ACA alive.<\/p>\n

If funding for the ACA is not continued, Kaptur foresees dire circumstances for the nation. \u201cThere is nothing to replace the Affordable Care Act \u2026 emergency rooms will be overcrowded with very stressed hospitals.\u201d Especially hard hit will be people and hospitals in rural areas, she said. Already two rural hospitals in her district have been forced to close.<\/p>\n

Dr. Johnathan Ross, a now-retired internal medicine specialist, spoke about the impact of the GOP budget on those who will not be able to afford the pricier premiums.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis budget is immoral \u2026 tens of millions will lose coverage,\u201d said Dr. Ross. \u201cPeople will get sick, come to care late and will die. This is a moral failure; we are failing morally as a nation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. Ross opined that the \u201cACA was almost miraculous\u201d in the coverage it has provided to so many citizens but with the new budget much of that protection will disappear for so many. He also said that the ACA actually has helped to grow the economy as it has provided a way for small business owners to offer protection for staff. Those businesses, he added, will be in jeopardy of collapsing due to the additional operating costs.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis budget says about us as a country \u2013 that we will sacrifice the poor so that the wealthy can get a tax cut,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Also lending his voice to the concern about the impact of the BBB on citizens was Dr. Anthony Pattin, PharmD, who has opened the Junction Family Pharmacy during the last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are people\u2019s lives,\u201d said Dr. Pattin of his clients. \u201cI can\u2019t imagine more people losing their insurance \u2026 this will be costly for all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n

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