Miller-Meeks Exposed: Took $45,500 from Insurance PACs While Voting to Make Health Care Unaffordable for Iowans

New campaign finance records reveal what Iowa families have known all along: Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks took money from insurance companies while voting to make her constituents’ lives harder

While Miller-Meeks pocketed at least $45,500 from insurance and pharmaceutical political action committees in the fourth quarter of 2025 alone, she simultaneously crusaded against extending tax credits that keep health care affordable for over 100,000 Iowans. She voted for the largest cuts in history to Medicaid and caused the longest ever government shutdown with her refusal to keep health care affordable. Already this year, MercyOne has announced numerous cuts in Iowa due to the Republican Tax Law, including closing its Ottumwa clinic, layoffs across the state and stopping labor and delivery services in Clinton. When Miller-Meeks told constituents to not “overutilize” health care earlier this year, she showed exactly where her priorities lie.  

Jill, an ACA recipient in Rep. Miller-Meeks’ district is experiencing an over tenfold increase in her health care premium. She has starred in ads calling for Miller-Meeks to protect affordable health care, and even traveled to D.C. earlier this year only to be ignored by her representative. She said that this news is disappointing but not surprising. 

“It should be shocking, but it truly isn’t,” Jill said. “She tells us these credits are 'handouts to insurance companies,' but the only handouts I see are the ones going into her campaign account. Meanwhile, people like me are being priced out of staying healthy. Iowans deserve a representative who fights for us, not one who cashes checks from major corporations and makes our lives harder."