Burt Jones Embraces GOP Shutdown That Raises Health Care Costs for Georgians

Burt Jones Embraces GOP Shutdown That Raises Health Care Costs for Georgians

Today, Georgia GOP gubernatorial candidate Burt Jones doubled down on his support for Donald Trump’s cost-raising economic agenda and backed D.C. Republicans’ government shutdown. The shutdown will cost Georgia hospitals and doctors $3.7 billion and spike premiums for 1.4 million Georgians by up to 40 percent.

Because D.C. Republicans chose to shut down the government instead of working across the aisle to lower health care costs, 460,000 Georgians will lose health care and “Georgia’s hospitals, doctors and other health businesses stand to lose $3.7 billion in revenue next year alone.”

The pressure is on fellow Republicans Brad Raffensperger and Chris Carr to tell voters if they agree with Jones on blowing a $3.7 billion dollar hole in the budgets of Georgia hospitals and doctors, raising health care costs for working families, and ripping away people’s health care. Both Carr and Raffensperger already embraced Donald Trump’s dangerous budget law that originally included this health care price spike that Republicans are now refusing to work with Democrats to fix.

“After Burt Jones rushed to embrace D.C. Republicans’ shutdown, Brad Raffensperger and Chris Carr owe Georgians answers: do they support this government shutdown that rips health care away from 460,000 Georgians and raises health care costs?” said DGA spokesperson Kevin Donohoe.

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