Local Healthcare Provider: Biggs and Schweikert’s Attacks on Healthcare Could Be an “Unmitigated Disaster” for Arizona

A year after Andy Biggs and David Schweikert supported the disastrous Washington budget law that hiked healthcare costs for Arizona families, a new ABC15 report shows the damage isn’t finished — it's about to get worse. 

Mike Renaud, CEO of community health provider Valle del Sol, warned that continued Medicaid cuts under Biggs and Schweikert's budget will keep stripping Medicaid coverage from Arizona families and "be an unmitigated disaster." 

Despite those warnings, Biggs has called the DC budget a “good thing” and has pushed for “the more cut approach,” and Schweikert bragged about personally co-writing this “historic” bill that drove up Arizona’s cost of living. 

Copper State Victory spokesperson Nicholas Simões Machado said:

“Local healthcare providers in Arizona are raising the alarm on the catastrophic effects that Andy Biggs and David Schweikert's cost-hiking agenda is having and will continue to have on Arizona families. A year later, Arizonans are still paying for it – in higher premiums, in shuttered clinics, and in rural hospitals threatened with closure.”

It's the latest example of how Biggs and Schweikert have made healthcare and everyday life more expensive for Arizona families:

• Monthly healthcare premiums increased 30 percent after Biggs and Schweikert voted to strip tax credits away from 400,000 Arizonans, yet both Biggs and Schweikert voted against bipartisan efforts to reverse the damage and lower costs.

  
  

• Biggs and Schweikert’s partisan budget threatened healthcare coverage for 365,000 Arizonans, closing 8 healthcare clinics, and putting an additional 8 rural hospitals at risk of closure.

  
  

• More than 400,000 Arizonans, including about 180,000 children, lost lifesaving food assistance because of Biggs and Schweikert, “the largest decline in the nation by a wide margin.”

  
  

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