Biggs and Taylor Robson Argue Over Who Wants to Kick More Arizonans Off Their Health Care

Biggs and Taylor Robson Argue Over Who Wants to Kick More Arizonans Off Their Health Care

Yesterday, the U.S. Senate voted for the largest Medicaid cut in modern history, threatening to eliminate health care for over 350,000 Arizonans while giving tax breaks to billionaires. How did the AZ GOP gubernatorial candidates respond? By arguing over which candidate wants to kick more Arizonans off their health care.

Andy Biggs backed a House GOP bill that would leave nearly 11 million uninsured and even pushed for deeper cuts to Medicaid. After seeing no traction in her old position of pretending to defend Medicaid, billionaire lobbyist Karrin Taylor Robson desperately changed course — attacking Biggs for not enthusiastically supporting an even harsher Senate GOP plan that would leaveover 17 million Americans uninsured.

While the GOP candidates jockey for political points, Arizona families face the real threat of losing their health care under this harmful bill. One Arizonan said that she is “terrified” of what these cuts would mean for her family, and Arizona health care leaders have been abundantly clear that they are “not sure how many rural hospitals would survive.” Washington Republicans’ catastrophic Medicaid cuts would affect one in four Arizonans, cause rural hospitals to shutter, and eliminate up to 300,000 jobs. Even former Arizona Republican governor and Taylor Robson’s campaign co-chair, Jan Brewer, argued that by cutting Medicaid, “people will die,” and said bluntly that “you can’t kill people to balance your budget.”

DGA Communications Director Sam Newton said: “Andy Biggs and Karrin Taylor Robson are so out-of-touch that they are now desperately competing over who can strip health care from more Arizona families. While they try to outdo each other to score political points, Arizonans are stuck with the consequences: higher health care costs, lost jobs, and shuttered rural hospitals. Arizonans deserve leaders who will protect their health care, not ones who will sell them out to serve themselves.”

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