“It is unfathomable that the House of Representatives has been absent from work, as Georgians are already receiving notices about their health insurance premiums skyrocketing,” the letter reads.
Eighty of Georgia’s Democratic state representatives and senators signed onto a letter calling out GOP U.S. Senate candidates Reps. Buddy Carter and Mike Collins for voting to shut down the government instead of protecting crucial tax credits as 1.4 million Georgians brace for skyrocketing premiums, according to new reporting from the AJC.
While Carter and Collins haven’t bothered to show up to work in DC for over a month, their constituents face potential average ACA premium increases of 296% and 345%, respectively, for an average 60-year-old couple.
Read for yourself from the AJC.
KEY EXCERPTS:
- In a letter addressed to Georgia’s Republicans in the House, 80 Democratic state representatives and state senators blasted U.S. Reps. Buddy Carter and Mike Collins for failing to negotiate, as their chamber has been out of session for several weeks. Carter and Collins are both seeking the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate.
- “It is unfathomable that the House of Representatives has been absent from work, as Georgians are already receiving notices about their health insurance premiums skyrocketing,” the letter reads.
- Congress triggered a partial government shutdown on Oct. 1 when Democrats and Republicans were unable to reach an agreement on extending tax subsidies for the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.
- About 1.5 million people in Georgia get health care coverage through the ACA.