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Rebecca Kleefisch
stated on July 24, 2022 in Twitter:

"There is absolutely no reason why Wisconsin should be facing a worker shortage to the level we are when there are 123,000 more able-bodied childless adults on BadgerCare since the pandemic."

By D.L. Davis • August 2, 2022
Sarah Godlewski
stated on April 1, 2022 in Twitter:

"Ron Johnson is trying to let insurance companies deny coverage to people with pre-existing conditions like cancer, depression, pregnancy, diabetes—or even COVID.”

By Madeline Heim • April 15, 2022
Nikki Fried
stated on February 21, 2022 in a virtual town hall meeting:

Florida is "49th in the nation when it comes to (Medicaid) funding” for people with disabilities.

By Yacob Reyes • March 14, 2022
Beto O'Rourke
stated on November 19, 2021 in a rally:

"Expanding Medicaid, which if we had done at the beginning of the Abbott administration, would have brought in $100 billion to this state's economy."

By Nusaiba Mizan • January 10, 2022
Rick Scott
stated on December 7, 2021 in a press release:

The Build Back Better Act “includes $34.5 billion in cuts” for charity care funding to hospitals.

By Jon Greenberg • December 10, 2021
Terri Bryant
stated on July 13, 2021 in a radio interview:

“You may be 55 years old in [Illinois] and a citizen and not eligible for Medicaid. But if you are an undocumented immigrant and 55 or older, you’re eligible for Medicaid.”

By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • July 20, 2021
Jon Erpenbach
stated on March 21, 2021 in TV interview:

"There’s no strings attached to that money that we’d be getting as an incentive to expand Medicaid."

By Madeline Heim • May 7, 2021
Mark Born
stated on March 21, 2021 in a TV appearance:

“Private insurance gives … better coverage” than people would get under a Medicaid expansion.

By Eric Litke • April 21, 2021
Facebook posts
stated on February 12, 2021 in a Facebook post:

Insulin prices rose “with the swipe of (Joe Biden’s) pen.”

By Bill McCarthy • February 25, 2021
Greg Abbott
stated on January 24, 2021 in a tweet:

“Innocent lives will be saved” by ending taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood.

By Brandon Mulder • February 12, 2021
Tammy Baldwin
stated on November 19, 2020 in Twitter:

“Americans are paying the highest price in the world for Remdesivir because the Trump administration is allowing Gilead Sciences to jack up the prices on this #COVID19 treatment.”

By Laura Schulte • December 1, 2020
Lindsey Graham
stated on October 13, 2020 in in comments during Senate Judiciary Committee hearing:

“Under the Affordable Care Act, three states get 35% of the money, folks. Can you name them? I'll help you: California, New York and Massachusetts.”

By Phil Galewitz • October 28, 2020
Nicole Galloway
stated on October 4, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Says "Gov. Parson’s administration purged 100,000 kids from Medicaid rolls."

By William Skipworth • October 23, 2020
Chris Jones
stated on August 20, 2019 in TV ad.:

Says he "led the fight to expand Medicaid."

By Warren Fiske • September 10, 2019
Rob Schmitt
stated on August 14, 2019 in a "Fox & Friends First" discussion:

Says the Trump administration’s new policy for legal immigrants on welfare "has been around for a while. This is not a new thing that the president is trying to implement here, that the United States has been this way."

By Bill McCarthy • August 15, 2019
Mark Pocan
stated on April 30, 2019 in a tweet:

"The United States is the ONLY industrialized country without universal healthcare."

By D.L. Davis • June 21, 2019
Greg Steube
stated on May 28, 2019 in a press release:

"It’s estimated that in 2018 alone, dead people received $1 billion in benefits from Medicare, Medicaid, social security payments, and federal pensions."

By Amy Sherman • June 13, 2019
Dale Kooyenga
stated on April 12, 2019 in a radio interview:

"Tony Evers is cutting child support."

By D.L. Davis • May 10, 2019
John Delaney
stated on April 13, 2019 in a Tweet:

"Most of home care is paid by government programs."

By Yanqi Xu • April 25, 2019
Julián Castro
stated on March 12, 2019 in a tweet:

Says President Donald Trump’s fiscal year 2020 budget "slashes investments in health care to pay for tax cuts to billionaires."

By Miriam Valverde • March 20, 2019
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 25, 2019 in a CNN town hall event:

Says President Donald Trump "came forth with a budget — a trillion dollar cut in Medicaid, $500 billion to Medicare, and $72 billion for the Social Security Disability Fund."

By Jon Greenberg • March 6, 2019
Roy Cooper
stated on January 30, 2019:

Says "30,000 veterans in North Carolina have no health insurance."

By Paul Specht • February 14, 2019
Darren Jackson
stated on January 30, 2019 in a tweet:

"Expanding Medicaid would bring 40,000 jobs to North Carolina."

By Bill McCarthy • February 13, 2019
Dale Kooyenga
stated on November 7, 2018 in a radio interview:

Wisconsin has "the number one health care system in the country. Everyone in poverty now has health care"

By D.L. Davis • November 30, 2018
Gwen Moore
stated on November 8, 2018 in a TV interview:

"We have lost over $1 billion in not taking the Medicaid expansion money, only to insure fewer people."

By Eric Litke • November 20, 2018
Bernie Sanders
stated on November 15, 2018 in Tweet announcing new bill:

Says middle class taxpayers "subsidize Walmart’s horrendously low wages to the tune of at least $6.2 billion every year."

By Colin Meyn • November 16, 2018
House Majority PAC
stated on October 26, 2018 in a TV ad:

Says Ohio U.S. Rep. Steve Chabot "voted to cut health care for kids, affecting up to half the families at Cincinnati’s own Children’s Hospital."

By Samantha Putterman • November 5, 2018
Scott Walker
stated on September 17, 2018 in a poll:

"Tony Evers says that tax dollars should pay for the abortions just like they pay for tonsillectomies."

By Tom Kertscher • September 26, 2018
Tony Evers
stated on August 27, 2018 in a TV ad:

Says Scott Walker refused federal funds and "Wisconsin families now pay nearly 50% more than Minnesotans for the same health care."

By Eric Litke • September 7, 2018
JD Wooten
stated on August 24, 2018:

"My opponent, Rick Gunn, blocked the expansion of Medicaid — costing half a million people health insurance, including at least 23,000 veterans."

By Bill McCarthy • September 5, 2018

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