NEW ADS: Iowa physician calls out Miller-Meeks for cutting health care
Fairness for Iowa launched a new radio ad in their ongoing ad campaign calling out Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks for her votes that have taken affordable health care away from Iowans and caused a rural health care clinic to close.
The ad features Cecilia, a physician at a free medical clinic in Iowa City, speaking about the impacts of health care cuts that are already apparent in her work. She has previously spoken out about policies that hurt Iowans and take away access to health care.
“The last 30 years of practicing as a family physician has revealed the importance of access to health care for the well-being of individuals and communities,” Cecilia said. “We’ve had an alarming amount of new patients, with a line out the door at the free clinic and that’s only going to get worse. Health care is a basic necessity, and it is time for Miller-Meeks to listen to what is actually happening in Iowa because of her votes in Congress.”
Miller-Meeks voted for the largest cuts in history to Medicaid last year, leaving tens of thousands of Iowans worried about their health care options and rural hospitals at risk of closing, to make permanent massive tax breaks for billionaires. Doing so has left rural hospitals, clinics and nursing homes scrambling to keep their doors open, with MercyOne closing their Ottumwa clinic and announcing layoffs across the state. She also voted to take away health care tax credits that made insurance affordable to thousands of Iowa families.
Ad script:
My name is Cecilia, and I’ve been a family physician at a free medical clinic in Iowa City for over 20 years.
People need to know what’s happening since Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks voted to cut Medicaid and get rid of the health care tax credits.
Insurance premiums in Iowa have gone up thousands of dollars.
Our free clinic is overrun with patients who can no longer see their regular doctor or can’t afford to go to urgent care.
And the Medicaid cuts are putting nursing homes and rural hospitals at risk of closing, like MercyOne Otttumwa that closed in February.
Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks made it harder for everyone to access and afford health care.
So she could give billionaires another tax break.
Call Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks at 202-225-6576 and tell her to stop cutting our health care. Iowa families can’t afford it.
Paid for by Fairness For Iowa.
Listen to the ad here