Andy Biggs “Helped Create” a Health Care Crisis in Arizona

Andy Biggs “Helped Create” a Health Care Crisis in Arizona 

New reporting from the Copper Courier dives into a report that reveals how Andy Biggs helped create a disastrous health care crisis in Arizona.

Key takeaways include:

• Hundreds of thousands of Arizonans are losing coverage at “breakneck speed – at a time when the rising cost of living is already straining their pockets,” as a result of the GOP budget law Biggs voted for. Biggs suggested that Arizona go even further and take “the more cut approach.”
• 19 hospitals, wards, and clinics across the state have closed, cut services, or are at heightened risk of closure, and it’s become “harder for working-class people to navigate the bureaucratic processes” of the health care system. One expert warned that the cuts that Biggs proudly supported have made it so that “all Arizonans will suffer.”

• Biggs has a “consistent” history of making health care more expensive and harder to access — he attempted to gut Medicaid in 2011 when he was a state senator, and “introduced legislation to repeal the ACA” just last year.

In addition to his recent votes in DC to rip away health care and raise prices, this comes as Biggs has faced backlash for his record of trying to completely “abolish Medicaid” in Arizona, which would have even “abruptly” ended care for “mentally ill and disabled Arizonans.”

DGA Communications Director Sam Newton said: “This report shines even more light on Andy Biggs’s extreme record of cutting health care for Arizonans, raising costs and bankrupting hospitals. If Biggs becomes governor, there’s no doubt he’ll try to go even further. He needs to explain why he’s dead set on ripping health care away from working families and how people will get the care they need if Medicaid is completely eliminated.”

Read more in The Copper Courier about how Biggs created a devastating healthcare crisis in Arizona. 

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