Troy Jackson on Health Care

Keep a trillion in health care instead of tax cuts

Collins: We've got to work on health care affordability, and a major issue here is the high cost of prescription drugs. There's a lot that we can do to make health care more affordable.

Jackson: We took $1 trillion out of our healthcare industry so that we could give people like Elon Musk the income tax cuts. That's what the Big Beautiful Bill did. Senator Collins had a chance to stop that, not advance it. The thing about it is that we're going to lose $5 billion here in Maine in Medicaid cuts. We've lost SNAP benefits. We've lost 30,000 people that have gotten ACA subsidies taken away another 60,000 people have seen increases. A lot of these problems are actually designed to come into effect after the midterms. I mean that's how bad that they knew this bill was that they made sure that the effects didn't happen until after the election.

Believes in Medicare for All; supports public option