Karrin Taylor Robson Stays Silent While Andy Biggs and Campaign Co-Chair Fight Over Medicaid

Karrin Taylor Robson Stays Silent While Andy Biggs and Campaign Co-Chair Fight Over Medicaid

 As House Republicans, including Arizona gubernatorial candidate Andy Biggs, move to slash funding for Medicaid, Karrin Taylor Robson is refusing to let Arizonans know where she stands – even as her campaign co-chair and former Republican Governor Jan Brewer speak out.

A new report from 12News detailed Brewer and Biggs’ messy history over Medicaid funding – dating back to 2013 – when Biggs opposed Brewer’s Medicaid expansion during his time in the State Senate. Brewer sharply criticized Biggs’ proposed cuts to Medicaid after a Phoenix lunch with Arizona’s congressional delegation last month, saying “you can’t kill people to balance your budget.”

In contrast, Taylor Robson has stayed silent on the threat to rural communities, seniors, and families – cuts which one Medicaid recipient said they were “terrified” of.

Threats to Medicaid would be particularly devastating for Arizona, as roughly every one in four Arizonans are enrolled in the program. The state’s trigger law would automatically eliminate Medicaid expansion if Republicans made a major cut to the program’s federal funding, hitting veterans, children, and people with disabilities the hardest.

“As health care for roughly one in four Arizonans is at direct risk, Karrin Taylor Robson is once again too weak to say where she stands,” said DGA Communications Director Sam Newton. “Arizonans deserve answers, especially as her opponent Andy Biggs and her campaign co-chair Jan Brewer continue to fight over this major issue.”

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