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Rep. Pingree: People in Maine are very angry about the pending cuts to Medicaid. They’re worried about their hospitals closing. And they’re deeply concerned that having Republicans in the majority right now amounts to a rubber stamp for the president.

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Morning Joe: They don't care about working Americans. If they did, they wouldn't have passed the bill they passed, which gutted health care for working Americans and gave tax cuts to billionaires and multinational corporations and millionaires.

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Senator Schumer's message to Senate Republicans: Stop Trump's health care sabotage and vote to protect your constituents' coverage — or own every lost health care policy, every closed hospital, every skyrocketing premium that follows.

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MAHA speaker: "One's a heart surgeon and one's a heartthrob, we'll let you decide which is which." Let us help. One sold magic weight-loss pills resulting in a $5.25 million false advertising settlement. The other is awaiting trial on rape and sexual assault charges.

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Upcoming MaineCare cuts will hit rural Maine hardest - MECEP

Rural hospitals are already under enormous pressure. Trump-GOP health care cuts make the crisis worse. By pushing thousands of Mainers off MaineCare, Trump and Republicans are taking money out of the health care system rural communities depend on and putting access to care at even greater risk.

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Beginning in January, tens of thousands of Mainers enrolled in MaineCare will face new work reporting requirements to keep their health care coverage. The new administrative burdens […]

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Morning Joe: We warned Republicans every day, while they were considering voting for that bill, that if they did it, they were going to savage rural health care. They did it because they had to give tax cuts to millionaires, like Roger Marshall, billionaires, and multinational corporations.

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“The grim state of affairs at the Trump CDC should terrify everyone.” The agency has lost nearly a third of its workforce. Only 1 of its 11 center directors is left. Its own scientists call it "zombified."

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Bombshell NYT Report Finds Trump CDC In Critical Condition — Protect Our Care

"The grim state of affairs at the Trump CDC should terrify everyone." A new @nytimes.com investigation finds the agency that protects Americans from disease is now a "zombified" shell. RFK Jr. has gutted it. We're all less safe because of his actions.

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See must read NYT story below; Reaction from Protect Our Care president Brad Woodhouse: “The grim state of affairs at the Trump CDC should terrify everyone. There’s a bright line...

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"It's hurting our global standing. It's making us sicker." Sen. Angela Alsobrooks on RFK Jr. replacing scientists with decades of experience with conspiracy theorists. We're all less safe.

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Sen. Angela Alsobrooks on what RFK Jr. has done to America's public health: "an absolute and utter disaster." 30% of CDC scientists gone. Measles at a 30-year high. People have died. Americans are sick of it.

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'FULL HORROR' Rep. Brendan Boyle on the 16 MILLION projected to lose health care because of Trump-GOP cuts. Republicans gutted health care to fund billionaire tax cuts. Americans are sick of paying more and getting less.

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Trump and Republicans gutted Medicaid to hand tax cuts to billionaires. Medicaid pays for roughly 4 in 10 births in America. @kamalaharris.com: 80% of maternal deaths are avoidable, and the leading reason women die is simply not being able to get care. This is the GOP health care crisis.

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"There's nothing else that I can do." Republicans ripped away the tax credits that kept Kara's coverage affordable. She'd already sold her house of 17 years to pay for her care. Now she's out of options. Americans are sick of it.

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"That is a huge increase in cost for a lot of people." KFF's Cynthia Cox on families scraping by after Republicans took away the ACA tax credits. Premiums up 58%. Deductibles up $1,000. Americans are sick of paying more and getting less.

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Sen. Michael Bennet: When the leadership of HHS spends its time amplifying conspiracy theories, they're not making communities safer. They are driving down immunization rates, leaving our schools vulnerable — and putting the lives of Colorado's children directly in harm's way.

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Hospital Crisis Watch: The Road to Health Care Gets Longer as GOP Cuts Force Critical Services to Disappear — Protect Our Care

Donald Trump and Republicans’ decision to gut more than $1 trillion from Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act is driving more than 1,200 hospitals, clinics, wards, and nursing homes to close their doors, cut services, or face the threat of closure or cuts.

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One Big Beautiful Bill Is Starting to Bite Before the Election

"Can you imagine going from a monthly premium of zero to $850?" That's what happened to Dina Rose Friedman, 64, after Republicans in Congress took away the ACA tax credits that kept her coverage affordable. "I remember freaking out."

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The tax cuts in President Trump’s signature achievement were the Republicans’ answer to voters’ economic struggles, but its health care and food assistance cuts are taking a toll.

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Never mind all the available discretionary funds he could have used. Yet Kennedy would rather help himself to money meant to fix gross health disparities in underserved communities of color.

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Secretary Kennedy didn’t need to rob health resources from the most vulnerable, but he did it anyway for his own benefit. Somehow RFK Jr. can always find plenty of tax dollars for flying high in military jets or promoting his own brand, from celebrity cooking shows to vanity podcasts.

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