Senator Tammy Baldwin

Yeah, well, as we speak, people are getting those notices in the mail or online about what their premiums are going to be next year.

And then when you take away this premium tax credit that's going to expire, there are so many millions of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Wisconsinites who will

lose health care because they simply cannot afford it.

And I've been hearing from my constituents, meeting with them, lifting their stories.

Just earlier today, I talked with Kara, who runs a small business.

It's a nonprofit child care center.

And she and her family, as well as her employees, rely on the Affordable Care Act.

but she feels as though she's not going to be able to pay for her own health insurance in the future if the tax credits expire.

She's also worried about her workers leaving if she can't provide some help with health care benefits.

And these are small businesses, these are farmers, these are the backbones of our communities.

And they are disproportionately, by the way, in states and congressional districts that voted for Donald Trump.

I think we started to see a little bit of kinks in the armor, if you will, with some of Trump's statements and some of Speaker Johnson's statements.

And they are beginning to understand just how critical this healthcare issue is.

They created this crisis in their big, ugly bill.

And now with the expiring tax credits, it would only get so much worse.

Exactly, and that's the big fear.

Nobody is saying that our healthcare system was healthy to begin with.

There are lots of problems that we have to resolve, lots of problems.

But the big ugly bill with almost a trillion dollars in cuts to Medicaid,

is going to cripple our healthcare system.