Mainers and Americans all over the country are facing insurmountable increases in health care costs next month, in part because Congress has not acted to save the Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax credits that enable people to obtain health insurance through health insurance marketplaces, like Coverme.gov here in Maine.
On December 11, Senator Susan Collins voted in support of a bill, S. 3386, that would have worsened this crisis by:
- Not extending critical ACA tax credits
- Adding new and dangerous restrictions on abortion care
- Allowing already increasing health care costs to skyrocket.
Senator Angus King voted against the same legislation, which ultimately failed to pass.
Senator Collins and her Republican colleagues in Washington, D.C. voted to strip millions of people and tens of thousands of Mainers of their health insurance and advance an extreme anti-abortion agenda. Abortion is health care, and people need meaningful reform, not more restrictions on health care.