| Today, the Democratic Party of Georgia held a press conference with Chair Charlie Bailey, Minority Whip Rep. Sam Park, State Rep. Shea Roberts, and Georgians on ACA health care plans to slam Buddy Carter, Mike Collins, and Derek Dooley for their opposition to extending ACA tax credits and forcing Georgians to pay skyrocketing premiums. Following ACA open enrollment ending last week, the DPG also announced a new billboard campaign calling out Carter, Collins, and Dooley for their refusal to support extending ACA tax credits and raising insurance costs for the 1.4 million Georgians on ACA health care plans. Recent data from KFF has found that ACA premiums could skyrocket by up to $885 per month in Buddy Carter’s district and $936 per month in Mike Collins’ district—the highest for any congressional district in the state. Dooley has offered no substantive policy alternative to protect Georgians’ health care. |
| “95% of the folks on ACA health care plans in Georgia receive some form or received some form of subsidy to help them pay those bills,” said Democratic Party of Georgia Chair Charlie Bailey. “And because of the actions of Buddy Carter, Mike Collins, and the support of people like Derek Dooley, you are seeing — for 1.4 million Georgians — their premiums doubling, tripling, quadrupling.” “Let’s be clear about responsibility. Republicans who supported ending these tax credits — like Buddy Carter, Mike Collins and Derek Dooley — chose to end these tax credits as a part of a package that delivers nearly $1 trillion in tax breaks to billionaires and big corporations,” said Minority Whip State Rep. Sam Park. “The loss of ACA credits goes beyond just the bills people are seeing each month. It impacts our entire health care system,” said State Rep. Shea Roberts. “Georgia’s rural hospitals have already been stretched thin for years, and we know that Georgia Republicans in the state legislature have done nothing to help them, but now national Republicans are gutting them even further.” “Without those tax credits, my family’s health insurance, like many other Georgians, has skyrocketed all due to the ineffectiveness of Republicans in Congress,” said Fulton county ACA enrollee Javoris Brown. “Now we have Buddy Carter, Mike Collins and Derek Dooley all campaigning for the Senate on continuing Donald Trump’s complete disaster of a presidency that has ripped healthcare from thousands of Georgians and millions of Americans.” “I was on the ACA until I got the news that my plan that I was on last year would triple almost in cost, or my other option to try to stay within the same range was for a catastrophic plan that barely covered anything and had over a $10,000 deductible,” said Fayette county ACA enrollee Nora Pullen. “What choice do most people have? We’re middle class. When I think of my neighbors, some of them are in much more dire situations than we are with pre-existing conditions. What choices do they have?” ### |