Advent Calendar Surprise: Tom Tiffany is a Health Care Coverage Nightmare for Wisconsin

Tom Tiffany admitted the GOP has no plan to prevent ACA premium increases

Tiffany voted against expanding Badgercare

Tiffany helped write a plan to raise the age of eligibility for Medicare and Social Security

MADISON, Wis. — GOP gubernatorial candidate Tom Tiffany has a long record of cutting health care access and affordability for Wisconsinites. Recently, Tiffany admitted that, after more than 15 years of trying to gut the program over 300,000 Wisconsinites rely on, Republicans still don’t have an alternative plan to the Affordable Care Act. Now, Tiffany is trying a new tactic: Health Savings Accounts which will make it even harder for Wisconsinites to see a doctor.

“Tom Tiffany is looking to strip health care coverage from working Wisconsinites to pay for tax cuts for billionaires like Elon Musk,” said Democratic Party of Wisconsin spokesperson Emily Stuckey. “Health Savings Accounts mean increasing deductibles for working people and will reduce the number of people who can get coverage while also encouraging people to get substandard coverage. This is a cruel ploy to undermine, weaken, and ultimately destroy the ACA.”

A brief Look at Tom Tiffany’s Extremist Record on cutting the ACA and Badgercare:

• As a State Senator, he was outspoken in his support for Scott Walker’s decision to not accept federal funds for Badgercare expansion.
• In 2019, Tiffany voted against expanding Badgercare.
• In Congress, he voted against the State Health Care Premium Reduction Act which incentivized state Medicaid expansion and allowed prescription drug price negotiation under Medicare.
• Tiffany said that the Affordable Care Act has “harmed the rest of America.”
• Tom Tiffany helped write a plan that would raise the age of eligibility for Medicare and Social Security.
• Tiffany supports raising the retirement age.
• Tiffany co-sponsored a bill to eliminate minimum staffing requirements for long-term care facilities receiving Medicaid.
• Tiffany cheered on Ron Johnson as he tried to make steeper cuts to health care in the Big Ugly Bill.

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NOTE: This press release was submitted to Urban Milwaukee and was not written by an Urban Milwaukee writer. While it is believed to be reliable, Urban Milwaukee does not guarantee its accuracy or completeness.