DUCKWORTH, DURBIN HOLD LISTENING SESSION ON THE COSTS OF TRUMP'S BIG, UGLY BETRAYAL ON OUR HEALTH CARE SYSTEM IN THE YEAR SINCE IT BECAME LAW

WASHINGTON, July 17 -- Sen. Tammy Duckworth issued the following press release:

U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) held a listening session with Illinois health care providers, leaders and advocates to discuss the devastating costs that Donald Trump and Republicans' "One Big Beautiful Bill" have had on our health care system in the year since this disastrous legislation was signed into law last July. The law enacted a $1 trillion cut to Medicaid-the largest Medicaid cut in our nation's history-in order to carve out tax cuts for billionaires, leading to hundreds of thousands of Illinoisans losing health care coverage and leaving hospitals across our state at risk of closing altogether. Pho...