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 Sunrise, FL – Today, U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-25) held a roundtable discussion and press conference with Affordable Care Act recipients who face skyrocketing healthcare costs due to Republicans allowing ACA enhanced premium tax credits to lapse and the passage of Trump’s Big Ugly Law.

Watch the full press conference here.

“If Republicans continue to cater to the billionaires and ignore our families, family budgets are going to be demolished. It’s going to force families to drop healthcare coverage altogether. Our neighbors won’t see their doctors. Chronic diseases will go undiagnosed,” said Wasserman Schultz. “People will end up sicker than they ever should be, and tragically, some people will needlessly die.”

Florida, as much as any state in the nation, faces one of the worst impacts if the ACA tax credits at the heart of the shutdown dispute are allowed to expire. Of the top 15 congressional districts with the highest number of ACA enrollees, 12 of them are in Florida. On a yearly basis the State of Florida leads the nation in sign-ups for the Affordable Care Act.

In Florida’s 25th Congressional District, 203,000 people will see their health care costs rise if ACA tax credits expire and 82,00 people will lose access to health coverage entirely due to the impacts of the Big Ugly Law and expiring ACA tax credits.

Wasserman Schultz was joined by Executive Director of Florida Decides Healthcare Mitch Emerson, ACA recipients Saskia Madison, Felicia Persaud, and Stephanie van Vark, family member of ACA recipient Jody Kaminsky, and Half Moon Empanadas HR Director George Zamora, who handles employee health planning for his company.

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