15.1 million will lose health care as a result of the Republican Tax Law that Nunn and Miller-Meeks voted for

Iowa families, small business owners, and rural hospitals and clinics are all bracing for the cuts to health care as a result of the Republican Tax Law. Voted for by both Reps. Mariannette Miller-Meeks and Zach Nunn, it guts Medicaid and fails to extend Affordable Care Act premium tax credits, stripping 15.1 million Americans of their health care and destabilizing Iowa’s health care system—especially in rural areas. 

In Iowa, where over 700,000 rely on Medicaid or the ACA for coverage, the ripple effects will be especially painful. The law’s changes will make it harder for families to stay insured, harder for hospitals and clinics to stay afloat and harder for small businesses to retain a healthy workforce.

“Almost every small business person I know who handles their own insurance goes through the ACA marketplace,” Mike Draper, founder and owner of RAYGUN said. “Increasing marketplace insurance costs will just increase personal costs for those small business owners, making the path to small business success even narrower. This bill will directly burden small business owners to further reduce the already-low taxes on billionaires. Considering small businesses are the country's main driver of hiring, this bill is the opposite of what we should be doing if we want to maximize American growth and prosperity."