Rep. Nunn’s Plan: Repeal the ACA and Make Iowa Families Pay More

“Let’s make no bones about it: The ACA is one of the most destructive health care plans out there… I want the ACA gone,” Congressman Zach Nunn told supporters this week. Advocating for the elimination of affordable health care for nearly 137,000 Iowans, his words make clear that he prioritizes dismantling protections over keeping health care costs manageable for families, small business owners, and those with pre-existing conditions.

This push to gut health care follows a pattern of votes and actions that raise costs for Iowa families. Last year, Nunn supported the largest cuts ever proposed to Medicaid and opposed efforts to make health care more affordable, including voting against policies that would extend relief to families facing rising premiums, causing the longest government shutdown in history. Now, he is focusing his efforts on a healthcare agenda centered on repealing the ACA with no plan to replace its critical benefits.

Mazie Stilwell, Executive Director of Progress Iowa, said, “Congressman Nunn has spent his career making health care more expensive and less accessible for Iowa families. From supporting massive Medicaid cuts to opposing policies that make coverage affordable, he continues a troubling pattern of putting billionaires ahead of the people he was elected to serve.”

Amber Gustafson, a mom and small business owner in Nunn’s district said that his comments were unacceptable.

“He knows full well the damage that repealing the ACA would do to families like mine and for people with pre-existing conditions, who could once again be denied care or charged more simply for being sick,” Gustafson said. “Higher premiums, fewer choices, and thousands of families forced to choose between paying rent, buying groceries, or seeing a doctor. That’s not leadership. It’s a reckless attack on the health and financial security of the people he was elected to serve.”