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Dan Sullivan on Health Care |
Peltola: every Alaskan deserves access to high quality, affordable health care. but reckless cuts from Washington, D.C. have threatened health care for tens of thousands of Alaskans. My immediate priority is reversing the damage to Medicaid and restoring health care tax credits that Dan Sullivan voted against seven times. He voted for The Big, Beautiful Bill. This has been the opportunity for a third of Alaskans to have their Medicaid benefits reduced.
Sullivan: The bill she's talking about did not cut Medicaid for Alaskans. Funding for Alaskans at all. What is destroyed? Alaska's health care is Obamacare. Obamacare destroyed the health care system here. It cranked up insurance premiums by almost 1,000%. We lost almost every insurer. I actually bucked my party and voted to extend the premium tax credits on Obamacare twice.
Dan Sullivan: No. Supported repeal of the ACA and eliminating the requirement for individuals to enroll in health insurance.
Al Gross: Yes. Running because Sullivan voted repeatedly to scrap the ACA. Favors offering public option, though not Medicare for all, and focusing more on addressing costs.
Each of the three 60-second ads mentions Begich's support of ObamaCare. One also notes the incumbent's support of Obama's appointees, and questions where he stands on an oil tax rewrite referendum in the state this year.
"Today the American dream is being suffocated, and Senator Mark Begich is part of the problem," the ad's announcer says in one. It goes on to introduce Sullivan, who is also a former state attorney general and lieutenant colonel in the Marine Reserves, and includes an audio clip of Sullivan saying, "Washington is broken."
After the 2,200-page ObamaCare legislation was passed, Attorney General Sullivan and a team of attorneys from the Alaska Department of law read the act and analyzed its constitutional implications. Sullivan and his team wrote and submitted a 49-page legal memorandum to Governor Parnell recommending that Alaska sue the federal government over ObamaCare. The Sullivan memo, which was released to the public, was cited by other state Attorneys General offices as an important document in the fight to overturn ObamaCare.