Pappas Continues to Sound the Alarm on Devastating Impact of Medicaid Cuts on New Hampshire Health Care
Today Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) visited Parkland Medical Center in Derry to tour their health care center, meet with CEO Whitney Fenyak, CFO Kerrin Lucas, and staff, and discuss the harmful impact of the Republicans’ so-called “One Big, Beautiful Bill.” This legislation has made devastating cuts to Medicaid funding that is critical for New Hampshire hospitals and their ability to provide care to patients.
“The reality is that, with the Big, Ugly Law, President Trump and Republicans in Congress have taken health care away from millions of Americans and that has a very steep cost for impacted families, for our health care centers, and for our communities, especially those in rural areas,” said Congressman Pappas. “Our hospitals do lifesaving work, including treating people regardless of whether they have insurance. There’s a real concern that they won’t be able to absorb the costs of care for the now much larger portion of Granite Staters who will be forced to go without coverage, and that this could result in cutting back on services, staff, or even closure. Today I met with Parkland Medical Center leaders and staff to hear directly from them about how these cuts will affect their ability to serve their community, and I'm grateful for their ongoing work to meet the health care needs of people in southern New Hampshire.”
President Trump and Republicans’ Big, Ugly Law made deep cuts to health care and food programs for working families to cover the cost of $5 trillion in tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy. It will leave an estimated 15 million Americans uninsured, including more than 46,000 Granite Staters; trigger $500 billion in cuts to Medicare; increase monthly out-of-pocket costs for families and leave more Americans with overwhelming medical debt; defund Planned Parenthood, leaving more than 1.1 million women without access to needed care like cancer screenings and birth control; and kick millions of Americans off SNAP, leaving them unable to put food on the table – all to give tax breaks to billionaires and big Pharma.
Background:
In response to the passage of the Republicans’ reconciliation bill, Pappas and the New Hampshire delegation held a press conference at Waypoint to highlight the harmful impacts of the bill on New Hampshire. Last week Pappas met with staff and residents of Hillsborough County Nursing Home to discuss the Republican’s law and its devastating cuts to Medicaid funding will harm New Hampshire nursing homes and patient care.
Pappas voted against Republicans’ reconciliation bill every timeit came to the floor. Pappas filed two amendments to the Senate-passed Republican reconciliation bill to protect Granite Staters’ access to Medicaid and food assistance and to prevent Congress from passing the burden of cuts to these programs onto the state; neither was adopted.
In February, Pappas held a roundtable with New Hampshire health care advocates and community leaders to highlight the devastating impact the Republican budget would have on New Hampshire residents’ access to health care and local community health centers’ ability to serve their patients. In April, he held another discussion to highlight the negative impact the legislation would have on people who access care through the Medicaid program and New Hampshire’s Medicaid Expansion. Pappas spoke on the floor several times in opposition to the reconciliation bill and on behalf of his constituents on Medicaid and SNAP.