WASHINGTON, May 12 -- Sen. Peter Welch issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Finance Subcommittee on Health Care, today released the following statement in reaction to new reporting from NOTUS (https://www.notus.org/healthcare/aca-healthcare-dropped-insurance-numbers-subsidies) that one in five Americans enrolled in health coverage through HealthCare.gov lost insurance coverage after President Trump and Congressional Republicans declined to extend the Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium tax credits:
"This reporting should be a wake-up call for Republicans. The data makes clear that Democrats' warnings were right: Millions of hardworking Americans are being forced to go without health ca...