The tax credits that helped reduce West Virginia’s uninsured rate from approximately 20% to below 6% didn’t vanish by accident. Congress is letting them expire.

Supporters of the “Big Beautiful Bill” claim that Medicare won’t be touched. But that’s simply not true — and West Virginians deserve the truth.

Ask yourself: What happens when subsidies collapse and Medicaid shrinks? The answer: Regional hospitals lose reimbursements and must cut back, free clinics see a flood of uninsured people they can’t absorb, working parents drop coverage for their child to afford groceries, and your neighbor halts treatment for diabetes or heart disease.

West Virginians — and every American — deserve far better than this. We must not settle for less. It is time to demand the repeal of harmful Medicaid cuts and insist on the renewal of the Enhanced Premium Tax Credits. Our health, our families and our future depend on it.

When private equity enters health care, history shows cost-cutting follows. Staff are pared back, services are trimmed, and the focus shifts from care to margins. Public ownership ensures accountability; private profit motives don’t.

West Virginians don’t want a handout. Capito and Justice did not fight for us. We want a fair chance to live an informed, healthy, meaningful and productive life. Capito and Justice just made life harder.

This is a call to action. The disregard was on full display at the House Standing […]

Medicaid is a core source of oral health care coverage for families, which is critical to ensuring overall health and well-being.

For now, here are the best of the worst of GOP efforts to sabotage your healthcare.  

Over 64,000 West Virginians rely on the ePTC to make individual marketplace monthly premiums affordable. If Congress does not act to extend them this year, ours will be one of the hardest hit states.