11Alive: “Protesters gathered outside Congressman Mike Collins’ office yesterday. They’re calling on him to return to Washington and again vote to reopen the government.”

GA-10 constituents could see an average 345% increase in ACA premiums

On Wednesday, GA-10 constituents gathered outside of Rep. Mike Collins’ district office in Monroe, GA to protest his opposition to extending critical ACA tax credits for 1.4 million Georgians and his failure to show up for work in over three weeks to help reopen the government and protect Georgians’ health care.

The protest comes after a recent analysis by KFF revealed that an average 60-year-old couple in Collins’ district could see their health care premiums rise by an average of 345% if ACA tax credits are allowed to expire at the end of the year — the highest increase of any congressional district in the state.

See below for coverage on the protests against Mike Collins’ opposition to extending ACA tax credits for 1.4 million Georgians:

11Alive: Protestors Gather Outside Rep Collins Office

• Jonathan Martin, WXIA-NBC: Meantime, the House is still on recess while the Senate is still deadlocked. 
  
• Jonathan Martin, 11Alive: Protesters gathered outside Congressman Mike Collins’ office yesterday. They’re calling on him to return to Washington and again vote to reopen the government.
  
• GA-10 protestors: Do your job, save our health care. 
  
• Jonathan Martin, 11Alive: You can hear them chanting, “do your job.” They also were chanting “pay the troops” through the Monroe community members’ rally. 
  
• Jonathan Martin, 11Alive: This was right there. Yesterday, the Monroe communities for action, the group East Metro for Social Justice organized this event saying the government shutdown and the stalled budget are right now hurting a lot of working families. 
  
• Jonathan Martin, 11Alive: Many protesters say they rely on health care through the Affordable Care Act and say higher costs could hit rural communities the hardest.
  
• Michael Caw, GA-10 constituent: He needs to get back and do his job. The job is not just to pass a bill that’s just going to go on for maybe four or five months. They are supposed to be passing the budget for the country and how we are going to run.
  
• Jonathan Martin, 11Alive: Protesters say they will keep pressuring Collins and other lawmakers until Congress goes back and passes a spending bill to restart and reopen the government.