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N.C. Democratic Party: Reminder - On Anniversary of N.C. Medicaid Expansion, Michael Whatley Has Called Ripping It Away 'A Huge Win'
RALEIGH, North Carolina, Dec. 2 -- The North Carolina Democratic Party issued the following news on Dec. 1, 2025:
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REMINDER: On Anniversary of NC Medicaid Expansion, Michael Whatley Has Called Ripping It Away "A Huge Win"
On the anniversary of North Carolina expanding Medicaid to more than 690,000 people thanks to Governor Cooper's leadership, DC insider Michael Whatley is cheering on efforts to rip it away.
Whatley - who opposed Medicaid expansion - is championing the GOP's toxic budget that guts Medicaid from hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians and puts five rural hospitals across
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RALEIGH, North Carolina, Dec. 2 -- The North Carolina Democratic Party issued the following news on Dec. 1, 2025:
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REMINDER: On Anniversary of NC Medicaid Expansion, Michael Whatley Has Called Ripping It Away "A Huge Win"
On the anniversary of North Carolina expanding Medicaid to more than 690,000 people thanks to Governor Cooper's leadership, DC insider Michael Whatley is cheering on efforts to rip it away.
Whatley - who opposed Medicaid expansion - is championing the GOP's toxic budget that guts Medicaid from hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians and puts five rural hospitals acrossthe state at risk of closing. He called it a "huge win" and said he would have voted for it "in a heartbeat."
"While Governor Cooper has a proven record of expanding health care for North Carolinians, Michael Whatley will fight to rip it away and drive up health care costs for hardworking families," said Mallory Payne, senior communications advisor at the North Carolina Democratic Party. "North Carolinians can't afford Michael Whatley in the U.S. Senate."
Now, thanks to Whatley's recklessness, the General Assembly needs to act to ensure more than 690,000 North Carolinians aren't stripped of their health care.
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See More: NC Newsline: Dems blast impact of Medicaid cuts on rural healthcare, spotlight 2026 Senate race, Cardinal & Pine: Opinion: Medicaid cuts will hurt North Carolina families like ours, Asheville Citizen-Times: NC Democratic Party raises alarm about Big Beautiful Bill's impact on rural hospitals
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Original text here: https://www.ncdp.org/media/reminder-on-anniversary-of-nc-medicaid-expansion-michael-whatley-has-called-ripping-it-away-a-huge-win/
NEW REPORTING: Health Care Costs Soar Thanks to Jon Husted's Health Care Crisis
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 1 -- The Ohio Democratic Party posted the following news:
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NEW REPORTING: Health Care Costs Soar Thanks to Jon Husted's Health Care Crisis
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"For one Ohio woman, monthly premiums have skyrocketed to $1,700 a month"
Columbus, Ohio New reporting shows how devastating Jon Husted's health care crisis has become for Ohio families. More than half a million Ohioans are bracing for massive premium hikes, with one woman's bill increasing to $1,700 a month.
Despite this, Husted voted eight times against lowering health care costs and continues to attack the ACA tax credits
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COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 1 -- The Ohio Democratic Party posted the following news:
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NEW REPORTING: Health Care Costs Soar Thanks to Jon Husted's Health Care Crisis
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"For one Ohio woman, monthly premiums have skyrocketed to $1,700 a month"
Columbus, Ohio New reporting shows how devastating Jon Husted's health care crisis has become for Ohio families. More than half a million Ohioans are bracing for massive premium hikes, with one woman's bill increasing to $1,700 a month.
Despite this, Husted voted eight times against lowering health care costs and continues to attack the ACA tax creditsthat Ohioans rely on, claiming they are " not the way to go about it."
Read more about Jon Husted's health care crisis:
Scripps News: How eliminating government subsidies could impact those who rely on the Affordable Care Act
* We first heard from Griffith about a month ago, when she thought her ACA premiums would go from $240/month to $1,200/month. However, after looking into it further, she said it's closer to $1,700/month.
* "Health care should never be a political issue," said Griffith. "It should be affordable. People in this country need health care. If you don't have it, you go bankrupt."
* Griffith said she retired a bit early to take care of her mom. She said that if the proposed ACA government subsidies are cut, they'll have to find the money somewhere else.
* "We'll have to go into savings. We'll have to look at retirement accounts," said Griffith.
* For Griffith, she said the lower-cost ACA plan has been a lifeline for her and so many others that Congress has to figure out soon.
WHIO: Millions of Ohioans worried about possible increase in ACA subsidies
* About 24 million Americans get their health insurance through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace. As reported on News Center 7 Daybreak, over 90 percent currently receive some tax credit, which helps keep those premiums down. They are scheduled to expire at the end of the year.
* For Joe Stamps, owner of Stamps of Approval Hair Studio, that means a premium of around $500 a month.
* Emma Wager is a senior analyst for the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF). Her group estimates that the average person who buys insurance through the ACA market will see their premiums more than double in the New Year.
* A 60-year-old couple will see their plan skyrocket by over 250 percent or around $1,500 per month for the plan, according to KFF.
* Stamps is one of 4 million people that KFF estimates will go without full insurance if the tax credits expire.
* "That's just really one day at a time, trusting God to take care of me, because the system does not seem to work for you, but they will use you to make money from you," he said. "So, it's just one of those things."
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Original text here: https://ohiodems.org/new-reporting-health-care-costs-soar-thanks-to-jon-husteds-health-care-crisis/
Mystery Group's One Million Dollar Ad Spend Hits Burt Jones for Enriching Himself in Office
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 -- The Democratic Governors Association posted the following news:
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Mystery Group's One Million Dollar Ad Spend Hits Burt Jones for Enriching Himself in Office
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The gloves are off! A new outside group Georgians for Integrity is spending nearly one million dollars attacking Burt Jones for his long record of enriching himself in office. The ad brutally goes after Jones for changing hospital rules to enrich his family and for ballooning his net worth while in office.
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The ads directly echo attacks that one of Jones' opponents, Chris Carr,
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 -- The Democratic Governors Association posted the following news:
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Mystery Group's One Million Dollar Ad Spend Hits Burt Jones for Enriching Himself in Office
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The gloves are off! A new outside group Georgians for Integrity is spending nearly one million dollars attacking Burt Jones for his long record of enriching himself in office. The ad brutally goes after Jones for changing hospital rules to enrich his family and for ballooning his net worth while in office.
Watch the brutal ad here :
The ads directly echo attacks that one of Jones' opponents, Chris Carr,has been making for months. In web videos and at candidate forums, Carr has repeatedly slammed Jones for abusing his office for personal profit.
Jones and his family are set for a big pay day from the construction of 13 " mammoth " data centers on a hospital that was made possible by a law Jones himself pushed for. And just this morning, the Georgia Recorder reported that the project is already raising concerns from community members over how much water and electricity it will use.
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Original text here: https://democraticgovernors.org/updates/mystery-groups-one-million-dollar-ad-spend-hits-burt-jones-for-enriching-himself-in-office/
Mike Lawler Turns to MAGA Extremists for Help with Tough Re-election Campaign
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 -- The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee posted the following news release:
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Mike Lawler Turns to MAGA Extremists for Help with Tough Re-election Campaign
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AJN : "New York Rep. Mike Lawler is running for reelection as a moderate, but he's campaigning with a rogue's gallery of far-right, MAGA acolytes."
New reporting exposes Mike Lawler for cozying up to some of the most extreme MAGA loyalists in the country on the campaign trail.
Lawler has regularly joined far-right politicians in favor of eliminating the Affordable Care Act, enacting a nationwide abortion
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 -- The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee posted the following news release:
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Mike Lawler Turns to MAGA Extremists for Help with Tough Re-election Campaign
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AJN : "New York Rep. Mike Lawler is running for reelection as a moderate, but he's campaigning with a rogue's gallery of far-right, MAGA acolytes."
New reporting exposes Mike Lawler for cozying up to some of the most extreme MAGA loyalists in the country on the campaign trail.
Lawler has regularly joined far-right politicians in favor of eliminating the Affordable Care Act, enacting a nationwide abortionban, and promoting election denialism and anti-vaccine conspiracy theories - despite claiming to be a so-called 'moderate' in Congress.
Over the past few months, Lawler brought Ted Cruz, one of the most partisan Senators in Washington and a staunch supporter of destroying the ACA, as well as Jim Jordan, the founder of the far-right House Freedom Caucus to the Hudson Valley. He also helped uplift MAGA extremists Jack Ciattarelli and Elise Stefanik in their own races, joining several NJ and NY campaign stops and endorsing both of their far-right bids for Governor.
DCCC Spokesperson Riya Vashi:
"Mike Lawler's fake moderate act falls apart the minute you look at who he campaigns with. If Lawler truly represented the values of the Hudson Valley, he wouldn't be surrounding himself with far-right extremists who want to rip away New Yorkers' health care and attack our democracy."
* New York Rep. Mike Lawler is running for reelection as a moderate, but he's campaigning with a rogue's gallery of far-right, MAGA acolytes.
* On Oct. 23, Lawler held a fundraiser in Monsey, NY, with Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. An analysis by GovTrack ranks Cruz as the third most conservative lawmaker in Washington. The Houston Chronicle reports that Cruz is currently leading a charge to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.
* Less than a month later, Lawler held a fundraiser at the Putnam County Golf Course featuring Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, who is deputy chair of the far-right House Freedom Caucus.
* In 2023, the Freedom Caucus pushed a budget proposal that called for deep cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. While the budget did not pass, these same ideas ultimately found their way into Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB), which Lawler supported.
* Lawler has also helped far-right candidates with their own campaigns.
* Last month, Lawler attended a get-out-the-vote rally for New Jersey governor candidate Jack Ciattarelli. In his campaign, Ciattarelli praised OBBB, aligned himself with anti-vaxxers, and spread disinformation about immigrants and transgender athletes. He also campaigned with far-right conspiracist Jack Posobiec.
* This week, Lawler endorsed Rep. Elise Stefanik in her bid for New York governor. Lawler flirted with his own campaign for governor and previously suggested Stefanik was too extreme to win. Stefanik has backed a nationwide abortion ban, eliminating Obamacare, and pardoning the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump has endorsed Stefanik's campaign.
* "Mike Lawler will toss New Yorkers aside in a heartbeat if it keeps him in Donald Trump's good graces," said Riya Vashi, a spokesperson for the DCCC. "From enabling Trump's extreme agenda to backing his dangerous 'Ultra MAGA' ally in New York for Governor, Mike Lawler keeps reminding Hudson Valley voters exactly who he works for and it's certainly not them."
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Original text here: https://dccc.org/mike-lawler-turns-to-maga-extremists-for-help-with-tough-re-election-campaign/
IN THE STATES: Americans are Speaking Out Against Republicans' Catastrophic Health Care Price Hikes
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 -- The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee posted the following news release:
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IN THE STATES: Americans are Speaking Out Against Republicans' Catastrophic Health Care Price Hikes
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POLITICO : "[...] Republicans stand to bear the brunt of voters' ire if their party fails to offset those looming price hikes."
In Senate battleground states across the country, a wave of coverage underscores the catastrophic consequences of the Republican health care crisis as " big wins by Democrats in November [...] put healthcare back in the forefront of U.S. politics," and GOP
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 -- The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee posted the following news release:
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IN THE STATES: Americans are Speaking Out Against Republicans' Catastrophic Health Care Price Hikes
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POLITICO : "[...] Republicans stand to bear the brunt of voters' ire if their party fails to offset those looming price hikes."
In Senate battleground states across the country, a wave of coverage underscores the catastrophic consequences of the Republican health care crisis as " big wins by Democrats in November [...] put healthcare back in the forefront of U.S. politics," and GOPSenate candidates fail to outrun their toxic, price-spiking agenda.
From Alaska to Georgia, Maine to Ohio, and states across the country, voters are
" experiencing sticker shock " and even dropping health insurance coverage altogether as they weather the devastating impact of the spike in health care costs that Republicans created.
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Reuters: Americans waiting for Obamacare subsidies delay or drop health insurance
* Officials from several U.S. states say Americans relying on subsidies to afford Obamacare health insurance are holding off on enrolling as they face 2026 premium hikes that could more than double, with one state seeing enrollment drag by as much as 33%.
* Big wins by Democrats in November have put healthcare back in the forefront of U.S. politics and left Republicans scrambling to address the issue before next year's mid-term elections that will decide control of Congress.
* "People are making really tough choices to figure out how they can stay covered or making the tough choice to drop," said Ingrid Ulrey, chief executive officer for Washington Health Benefit Exchange.
* Some consumers are paring back to alternatives like the short-term coverage plans that were designed to be used for emergency healthcare [...]
* About 24 million people signed up for the plans in 2025, with about 22 million receiving income-based subsidies.
* Health research firm KFF estimates premiums will more than double [...]
* CVS Health's Aetna announced in May it would exit the business entirely. UnitedHealthcare said it would trim its Obamacare offerings in less favorable markets, while Centene and Cigna have signaled potential rate adjustments tied to the expiration of the subsidies.
* Michele Eberle, executive director at Maryland Health Benefit Exchange, said rolling out Republican suggestions of direct subsidies and other changes to the framework of the tax credits would require documentation, new technology and system testing that could not be carried out in time for next year.
* "I don't think any exchange, including the federal exchange, can make systematic changes that quickly," Eberle said.
AK - KTOO: Possible end of federal health care subsidies could hit Alaskans especially hard
* Thousands of Alaskans who rely on the federal marketplace for health insurance are experiencing sticker shock as they apply for coverage for the coming year. That's because key health care subsidies that have helped millions of Americans afford their insurance are set to expire.
* As Congress continues debating whether or not to extend the tax credits, some Juneau residents are growing increasingly worried about how sharp premium hikes will hit their wallets, and their access to life-saving health care.
* David Elrod books performers for the Crystal Saloon in Downtown Juneau. He's worked in bars for nearly 20 years, and he's never had a bar job that offered health insurance. Right now, he pays about $60 a month for a basic plan through the Affordable Care Act marketplace.
* When he went to apply for his 2026 plan, he got quite a shock. The number on the screen said $1,030 a month.
* "It was pretty scary to see," Elrod said. "And that's not even including dental, which I'm obviously going to skip this year."
* He said the plan still had a $2,500 deductible the amount he would have to pay each year before insurance kicks in.
* "This is not like a Cadillac health insurance plan," he said.
* He isn't the only one seeing a massive jump in their premium payments. Federal subsidies that keep plans in the health care marketplace affordable are set to expire if Congress doesn't act to extend them by the end of the year. In fact, the question of whether or not to extend the subsidies was the fundamental debate behind the recent, record-breaking government shutdown.
* The state estimates that 27,000 Alaskans buy insurance through the Affordable Care Act. KFF Health News reports that nationwide, enrollees who benefit from federal subsidies will see monthly payments increase on average by 114% if federal subsidies disappear. But Alaskans could see much higher jumps.
* The Alaska Beacon reported earlier this fall that the average monthly insurance payment for Juneau residents using federal insurance will rise from $124 to more than $1000 if the subsidies expire - likely causing some to opt out of insurance
* For Elrod though, going without insurance isn't a good option.
* He has a condition that requires expensive medication to prevent blood clots from forming.
GA - POLITICO: Republicans face a health care backlash in Georgia as subsidies set to expire
* Republicans across the country are in a bind [as] they have yet to articulate a plan to tackle the upcoming spike in health care premiums.
* That conundrum is coming into sharp relief in Georgia, a state with an especially high reliance on the Affordable Care Act [...]
* Georgia Republicans running to unseat Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff are avoiding talking about health care in their crowded primary, giving him leverage to [...] address the loss of subsidies. One study from the Georgia Health Initiative projected premiums will more than double, on average, after the planned Dec. 31 expiration of the subsidies.
* [..] Health care costs are emerging as a new flashpoint in next year's midterm elections. Polling shows staunch nationwide support for the Affordable Care Act, with 64 percent of Americans holding a positive view of the policy, according to a September survey conducted by the health policy organization KFF. That includes two-thirds support among independent voters, who will be crucial for either party's success next year. And in Georgia, where nearly 15 percent of the population is enrolled in marketplace health insurance, Republicans stand to bear the brunt of voters' ire if their party fails to offset those looming price hikes.
* None of the three Republican hopefuls running in what will be one of the most competitive Senate races in the country next year have meaningfully addressed how to mitigate the jolt in costs. Like most Republicans, the two Georgia candidates holding House seats Mike Collins and Buddy Carter voted to end the shutdown without addressing the looming expiration in subsidies.
* And the third candidate, former football coach Derek Dooley, has yet to take a position on how he would approach legislating a solution.
* Over 1.5 million Georgians rely on the state-based exchange known as Georgia Access for insurance, making the Peach State host to the fourth-highest marketplace enrollment in the country, according to one analysis. Over 90 percent of those enrollees use the federal subsidies to afford their insurance.
* "You can really see the impact of the enhanced premium tax credits on the marketplace and having that increased affordability really pushed our marketplace enrollment quite high," said Laura Colbert, executive director of the advocacy group Georgians for a Healthy Future.
* But when the subsidies expire at the end of the year, 340,000 of those enrolled are projected to lose their insurance as premium prices skyrocket, per the Georgia Health Initiative projection.
* That will likely foment before the end of the year, Colbert posited, describing Dec. 15 as a "drop dead" date by which insurance companies will start delivering premium notices to auto-enrolled customers about their 2026 coverage.
* "Rural Georgians are going to feel this in a bigger way than those of us who live in the metro Atlanta area," she added, saying "folks that live in rural areas tend to be older and so therefore premiums are already a lot higher in those regions."
* "Premiums are set to double for 1.4 million Georgians and nearly half a million Georgians could lose health insurance altogether," Ossoff said in a statement after casting his vote. "With health care votes ahead, the question is whether Republicans in Congress will join us to prevent catastrophic increases in health insurance premiums."
* [...] Democrats feel strong after recently flipping two seats on Georgia's Public Service Commission, which regulates the state's energy rates, marking their first non-federal statewide wins in decades.
ME - Maine Morning Star: Mainers Consider Forgoing Health Insurance Due to Spiking Costs
* Rachel Phipps, a retired social worker from Kennebunk, was diagnosed last month with skin cancer, which she has been getting treatments for. If the cancer isn't gone by her follow up appointment in December, Phipps said she won't be seeking additional treatment because her and her husband have decided to go without health insurance.
* Phipps currently pays about $200 a month for her marketplace health insurance plan, covering herself and her husband, who owns a small woodworking business in Sanford. But without federal subsidies, her monthly premium will go up to $2,000 with an almost $15,000 out-of-pocket deductible, which they can't afford.
* "I'm not choosing to not have health care insurance next year, but I can't afford $49,000 in health care," [...]
* " So I might be one of the 51,000 people that they know will die next year without the extension of the tax subsidies," she said, citing a June study from the Yale School of Public Health, which warned that the proposed changes to Medicaid and increasing health insurance costs could lead to tens of thousands of preventable deaths.
* That estimate was even before the pending expiration of the enhanced premium tax credits, which subsidize the cost of marketplace health insurance for millions of Americans, including approximately 60,000 Mainers.
* Since Congress has not yet extended those credits, thousands of Maine residents who are predominantly small business owners, older people or individuals that buy plans on the marketplace now face significant increases in health costs. Experts are warning that the ripple effects of this increase will be felt by everyone, and will eventually result in an overburdened health care system with reduced services.
* More than 2,000 people who buy marketplace health insurance have already canceled their 2026 coverage, according to Hilary Schneider, director of the Office of the Health Insurance Marketplace. Thousands have also chosen to purchase high deductible plans, she said, making themselves liable to pay large amounts out of pocket, because that is all they can afford.
* "Even for those who have enrolled and have decided that they can afford the 2026 coverage, they are paying more than last year," she said. "This is another necessary household cost, and it is rising as household budgets continue to get squeezed."
* Ossian Riday of Topsham [said] that he originally delayed starting his own business because he was worried about insurance costs, and was only able to after the enhanced premium tax credits were put into place.
* Last year, Riday was paying roughly $8,000 a year for his family, which rose to $13,000 this year. Now, if the subsidy expires, Riday's family faces an annual rate of $29,000, which with out-of-pocket costs could go as high as $42,000.
* "This is basically the equivalent of purchasing a new car every year," Riday said. "The medical insurance system in the U.S. is broken, and without government intervention, it will only get worse."
OH - WHIO: Millions of Ohioans worried about possible increase in ACA subsidies
* About 24 million Americans get their health insurance through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace.
* As reported on News Center 7 Daybreak, over 90 percent currently receive some tax credit, which helps keep those premiums down. They are scheduled to expire at the end of the year.
* Self-employed workers, small business owners, or those who can't get insurance through their employers are now navigating rate increases in open enrollment.
* For Joe Stamps, owner of Stamps of Approval Hair Studio, that means a premium of around $500 a month.
* "If you already have pre-existing conditions, of course, each time you tell them, I have this, I have that, it just tacks on a little bit more," he said. "And it's like, it's frustrating, really."
* Emma Wager is a senior analyst for the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF). Her group estimates that the average person who buys insurance through the ACA market will see their premiums more than double in the New Year.
* "If the premium tax credits were to expire, you're going to see massive growth in the amount of premium that you have to be paying every month for your health insurance," she said. "It's a significant expense for any American family, and it's obviously a concern that people may choose to go without insurance, which has its own downstream implications."
* " Most people really just can't afford that kind of monthly cost for health insurance, especially people who are at lower or middle incomes to begin with," said Wager. "It's a significant expense for any American family, and it's obviously a concern that people may choose to go without insurance, which has its own downstream implications."
* Stamps is one of 4 million people that KFF estimates will go without full insurance if the tax credits expire.
* "That's just really one day at a time, trusting God to take care of me, because the system does not seem to work for you, but they will use you to make money from you," he said. "So, it's just one of those things."
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Original text here: https://www.dscc.org/news/in-the-states-americans-are-speaking-out-against-republicans-catastrophic-health-care-price-hikes/
ICYMI: Vivek Ramaswamy Slammed for "Insane," Video "So Dumb, his Fans Think it's AI"
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 1 -- The Ohio Democratic Party posted the following news:
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ICYMI: Vivek Ramaswamy Slammed for "Insane," Video "So Dumb, his Fans Think it's AI"
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Mediaite: 'ENOUGH': Meghan McCain Outraged at Vivek Ramaswamy's Deleted Plan for Year-Round School
"Republican commentator Meghan McCain branded Vivek Ramaswamy's (R) plan to keep kids in school year-round as "absolutely insane.""
"McCain then eviscerated the idea.
"This is an absolutely insane idea - completely removing the importance of family bonding time and anything non academic related."
The New Republic: Dem
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COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 1 -- The Ohio Democratic Party posted the following news:
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ICYMI: Vivek Ramaswamy Slammed for "Insane," Video "So Dumb, his Fans Think it's AI"
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Mediaite: 'ENOUGH': Meghan McCain Outraged at Vivek Ramaswamy's Deleted Plan for Year-Round School
"Republican commentator Meghan McCain branded Vivek Ramaswamy's (R) plan to keep kids in school year-round as "absolutely insane.""
"McCain then eviscerated the idea.
"This is an absolutely insane idea - completely removing the importance of family bonding time and anything non academic related."
The New Republic: DemShares Vivek Ramaswamy Video So Dumb, His Fans Think It's AI
"MAGA Republicans accused a Democrat running against Vivek Ramawamy for Ohio governor of posting an AI-generated video of the DOGE czar-for-a-day pitching a truly terrible policy idea. Too bad for them, because the video was actually real."
"That proposal was so blatantly bad that Republicans immediately started to accuse Acton of sharing a fake video. Far-right commentator Tim Pool claimed on his show Tuesday that the video Acton shared was AI and that the audio had been "replaced.""
"It turns out, the only one manipulating the video was Ramaswamy. The full video was originally posted to Ramaswamy's social media accounts before being removed. Another version of the video was later reposted without the Republican's plan to extend school hours, according to The Columbus Dispatch."
Huffington Post: Vivek Ramaswamy Pitches Idea So Extreme Supporters Think His Opponent Made AI Video
"Conservatives had an extreme reaction to a video posted by Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy on Monday with many convinced it must be AI."
"Even worse for Ramaswamy: One of the ideas proposed in the clip was apparently so extreme that people inclined to support his candidacy were convinced the video was a smear made by his Democratic opponent, Dr. Amy Acton."
"Ramaswamy tried to counter the controversy by posting another video in which he accused Democrats like Acton of "distorting my position" on education, but didn't mention the year-round proposal from the earlier video."
" This isn't the first time Ramaswamy's views about the American education system have come back to bite him....Last December, he was heavily criticized after declaring that "American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long," and that a "culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers."
The Daily Beast: MAGA Insists Real Vivek Ramaswamy Policy Proposal Is AI
"MAGA has tried to excuse a real clip of Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy proposing "year-round" school as AI."
"The video was posted on Monday afternoon and was up for several hours before it was deleted and replaced with a version that removed Ramaswamy's year-round school proposal. He did, however, leave the original up on his Threads account. It is unclear why Ramaswamy deleted the proposal from his other platforms."
Yahoo: Fact Check: Gubernatorial Opponent Amy Acton Did NOT Spread A Fake Video Of Vivek Ramaswamy Advocating Year-Round School He Did Say It
"Did Ohio Democrat Amy Acton spread a fake video of Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy advocating year-round school, as social media posts claim? No, that's not true:"
The Center Square: Ramaswamy edits video initially proposing year-round school
"Ohio Republican governor candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is quickly backing away from an idea to send children to school year-round and extend the school day."
"Republicans initially claimed that Acton's camp created the video using deepfake AI, but the campaign confirmed to the Columbus Dispatch that the video was real."
"The video did not include any discussion of increased taxpayer costs for year-round schools or an extended school day."
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Original text here: https://ohiodems.org/icymi-vivek-ramaswamy-slammed-for-insane-video-so-dumb-his-fans-think-its-ai/
DGA Statement on Minnesota's Clown Car GOP Primary
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 -- The Democratic Governors Association posted the following news:
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DGA Statement on Minnesota's Clown Car GOP Primary
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DGA spokesperson Izzi Levy released the following statement in response to Chris Madel running for governor:
"Instead of the Land of 10,000 Lakes, Republicans are dead set on turning Minnesota into the land of 10,000 underwhelming candidates. With Chris Madel and every other candidate who piles into Republicans' clown car of a primary, this looks more and more like an all-out race to the right full of extremists and losers who are all running to
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 -- The Democratic Governors Association posted the following news:
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DGA Statement on Minnesota's Clown Car GOP Primary
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DGA spokesperson Izzi Levy released the following statement in response to Chris Madel running for governor:
"Instead of the Land of 10,000 Lakes, Republicans are dead set on turning Minnesota into the land of 10,000 underwhelming candidates. With Chris Madel and every other candidate who piles into Republicans' clown car of a primary, this looks more and more like an all-out race to the right full of extremists and losers who are all running todrag Minnesota backwards. In contrast, Governor Walz has a strong record of delivering for Minnesotans by cutting taxes, strengthening public schools, and protecting fundamental freedoms and that's exactly why he'll beat whoever emerges from this nasty brawl."
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Original text here: https://democraticgovernors.org/updates/dga-statement-on-minnesotas-clown-car-gop-primary/
