Protect Our Care
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Leading the fight to protect and strengthen health care for millions of Americans. linktr.ee/ProtectOurCare
Sen. Cassidy to the nominee for CDC Assistant Secretary: Do you understand the difference between causation and association?
Watch as Trump’s nominee for Director of the CDC says she was unaware that the Trump Administration cut funding for MRNA research. Probably something she should know if she wants to be a leading public health official.
Sen. Hassan: If Secretary Kennedy ordered you to stop promoting the flu vaccine during a deadly flu season for children, would you carry out that order? Yes or no? Nominee for CDC Director Dr. Schwartz: *doesn’t answer*
Sen. Ossoff: You’ve got the American public, broadly furious with the president for war, and tariffs, and health care cuts that are making everything more expensive.
RFK Jr. pushed to divert $5 billion from the National Institutes of Health to investigate the long-debunked theory that vaccines cause autism, according to a new report.
Rep. Aguilar: Their only significant bill, the Big, Ugly Law, was also their cruelest — and one year later, Americans across the country are experiencing the consequences.
Jan. 12, 2026 — AOC sums up the Republican priority: fewer resources for health care, more funding for ICE. Instead of investing in the care and security of American families, Republicans are choosing cuts, chaos, and cruelty.
“I really do believe that health care can win this election. … But it can’t be a health care election in a vacuum. We have to make investments.” 🎧 LISTEN NOW to The Great Battlefield podcast as Protect Our Care President Brad Woodhouse shares his take on the fight for affordable health care.
🎧 LISTEN NOW: Protect Our Care President Brad Woodhouse joined The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss his career in politics and how Protect Our Care is leading the fight for affordable, accessible health care. Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Soundcloud, and Stitcher
One year after the "Big Beautiful Bill," 8 million Americans have lost health coverage, all to fund tax breaks for billionaires and big corporations. @congressmanboyle.bsky.social just announced the Protecting Americans' Health Care Act, legislation to reverse the largest Medicaid cut in history.
Protect Our Care President Brad Woodhouse: A year ago on July 4th, Donald Trump signed the Big, Ugly Bill into law. And since then, we’ve seen 8 million people lose coverage so far — half out of Medicaid, and half out of the Affordable Care Act.
Protect Our Care President Brad Woodhouse: It will be years — years — to fix the harm of RFK Jr. in the public health space.
Protect Our Care President Brad Woodhouse: RFK Jr. is the most dangerous person to ever have a significant role in health care in our country.
New analysis: Republican health care cuts are set to slam families with a second straight year of double-digit premium hikes as the crisis gets worse.
Donald Trump and Republicans made a deliberate choice: rip away health care tax credits to fund tax breaks for billionaires and big corporations. Now health care premiums are projected to rise another 14% in 2027. Families are paying the price.
MS NOW reports: President Trump’s One Big, Beautiful Bill is putting the squeeze on rural hospitals, and next year, Medicare funding will be reduced dramatically — $1 trillion clawed back over 10 years.
“I lose my life if these services go away.” For Alexia, Medicaid means living at home, pursuing her education, and having the support she needs each day. Now, Republican cuts to Medicaid threaten to take that care away.
Rep. McGovern: There are people who are losing their health care. Republicans like to pretend that their Big, Ugly Bill — which cut Medicaid and the Affordable Care act by $1 trillion — didn’t actually hurt anyone. There are lots of real stories of people being hurt.
Former CDC Chief Medical Officer Dr. Deb Houry says Health Secretary RFK Jr. has cased “irreparable harm” to public health.
Watch our conversation with @govpritzker.illinois.gov, and follow along as we discuss the choices behind the big, ugly bill, and why so many Americans are bearing the cost while the wealthiest reap the rewards. Full interview is available at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2mv...
Rep. Magaziner: 8 million Americans have lost their health insurance over the last year. … Millions more have seen their health insurance premiums go up by hundreds and thousands of dollars. Hospitals and community health centers have shut down all across the country.
Protect Our Care’s President Brad Woodhouse: The minute H.R. 1 passed and was headed to the President’s desk, the first hospital announced its closure because of what it anticipated was the financial pressure that it would receive.
Protect Our Care’s President Brad Woodhouse testified before the House Workforce and Education Committee today that 15 million Americans will lose their health care coverage due to Republican cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act.
POC President Brad Woodhouse: Frankly, nothing can distract from the reality that H.R. 1 cut $1 trillion from Medicaid and the ACA, which will rip live-saving coverage away from 15 million Americans, including seniors, children, and people with disabilities.
Rep. DeSaulnier: Instead of working together to lower health care costs and tackle Big Pharma, the big, ugly bill just made things much worse, just to transfer more wealth to the wealthiest amongst us, during the highest level of inequality in the history of the country.
Sen. Ossoff: Donald Trump and Mike Collins decided to double health insurance premiums for more than a million Georgians with their attacks on the Affordable Care Act. We’ve seen — in just the last 6 months — more than 300,000 Georgians lose their health insurance altogether.
Rep. Boyle: Already, more than 5 million Americans have lost their health care directly as a result of [H.R. 1] That’s just the beginning — there is at least 10 million more who the CBO project will lose their health care beginning in December of this year, once the Medicaid cuts come into effect.
Rep. Underwood: One year ago, [Republicans] ripped $1 trillion of federal funding out of our health care system to line the pockets of all those guys who were in the front row of Donald Trump’s inauguration.
Rep. Dingell: President Trump and Republicans chose to finance massive tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans by taking health care and food assistance away from millions of people.