{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://susielee.house.gov/media/press-releases/roundtable-congresswoman-lee-southern-nevadans-share-devastating-impacts", "At Roundtable, Congresswoman Lee, Southern Nevadans Share Devastating Impacts of Rising Health Care Costs and Medicaid Cuts", "2025-10-10", "2025", "2025-10", "Democrat", "House", "NV", "Susie Lee", "L000590", "susielee.house.gov", "susielee", "https://susielee.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "LAS VEGAS, NV \u2013 Yesterday, at Desert Breeze Community Center, Congresswoman Susie Lee (NV-03) joined local parents and a health care provider to sound the alarm on how the looming expiration of ACA tax credits and Congressional Republicans\u2019 cuts to Medicaid would hurt families in southern Nevada.\n\n\u201cInstead of protecting health care, Republicans in Washington passed a bill gutting Medicaid earlier this year and took away tax credits that help working families afford their health insurance. This is only going to continue exacerbating our state's health care crisis and increase costs for all southern Nevadans,\u201d said Congresswoman Susie Lee. \u201cToday I heard from parents and health care providers who know all too well how these cuts and skyrocketing costs will affect our community. I\u2019m fighting to protect these credits and lower costs, because no Nevadans should be forced to go without health care.\u201d\n\nMedicaid in Nevada:\n\nNevada Medicaid data can be found HERE.\n\nOver 700,000 Nevadans receive health care coverage through Medicaid.\n\nMedicaid is not a controversial program\u2014three quarters of Americans support it, including 63% of Republicans, 87% of Democrats, and 81% of Independents.\n\nACA Enhanced Premium Tax Credits in Nevada:\n\nWashington Republicans\u2019 budget reconciliation bill failed to extend Affordable Care Act tax credits that help 85,000 Nevadans afford their health care\u201430,000 of whom live in Nevada\u2019s 3rd Congressional District.\n\nOn top of expiring ACA tax credits, the average premium rate increased by 26% for plans on Nevada\u2019s ACA exchange (Nevada Health Link).\n\nIf Congress allows the ACA tax credits to expire:\n\nMarketplace enrollees will pay $335 billion in higher premiums over the next ten years.\n\nFamilies who receive ACA tax credits will see an average tax increase of $4,051 in 2027.\n\nA 60-year-old couple in NV-03 earning about $80,000/year would see their premiums increase by more than $12,000 (a 178% increase).\n\nA family of four earning $64,000 would see their premiums increase by over $2,500 (a 191% increase)\n\nAs a result of these tax credits, nearly nine out of 10 Nevadans who enrolled in insurance through Nevada Health Link were eligible to receive financial support to help bring down the cost of monthly premiums.\n\n\u201cThe problem is there is a lack of healthcare providers for the population that we have. At the end of the day, even with health insurance, it\u2019s hard to get a provider to even see you.\u201d said Clark County Medical Society President Dr. Brad Isaacs, MD. \u201cSo do the uninsured get health care? They go to an emergency room, and they may be seen as is required by law, but that\u2019s only part of the problem. The preventative aspects of health care\u2014they\u2019re not given. The follow up\u2014they don\u2019t have the insurance, so they end up back in the emergency room. So what do the emergency rooms do? They tend to disappear. So the whole premise of taking care of people has been gutted.\u201d\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s difficult for me to even talk about or to even imagine what our lives would be like and for other families also affected by developmental disabilities,\u201d said Eve Eriksson, a Medicaid recipient with disabilities and the parent of a young child with disabilities. \u201cThe idea of losing those therapists that are our lifeline, that have opened up like this dark tunnel that my daughter was in and let me walk in and like really connect with my child. They want to take that away\u2014not just from me, but so many families in southern Nevada are struggling with this and [who] can\u2019t even get diagnosed, can\u2019t even get the little bit of therapy that we have has changed my daughter\u2019s life and has changed how much we can be included in the community.\u201d\n\n\u201cI\u2019m working as a 1099 contractor in outpatient mental health, which means I\u2019m overworked and underpaid because of those same Medicaid reimbursement cuts,\u201d said Katie Provost, LMSW, CSW-I, a social worker and single mom from Las Vegas, who depends on the ACA Premium Tax Credits to afford health care. \u201cI am the sole provider\u2014and I have to keep a roof over her head. Housing costs are skyrocketing, grocery costs are up. My income when I started my private practice was low enough that I was able to get it at $85 a month. With that 26% increase and taking away these tax credits, we\u2019re going from $85 to almost $700 a month just for the premium. I\u2019m fortunate that she\u2019s healthy right now\u2014but what happens if she slips and falls on the playground and breaks her arm? And I don\u2019t have it\u2014she wants to do gymnastics at $85 a month, and I don\u2019t have it.\u201d\n\nCongresswoman Lee was joined by Clark County Medical Society President Dr. Brad Isaacs, MD; Eve Eriksson, a Medicaid recipient with disabilities and the parent of a young child with disabilities; and Katie Provost, LMSW, CSW-I, a social worker and single mom from Las Vegas, who depends on the ACA Premium Tax Credits to afford health care.\n\nCongresswoman Lee has continued to sound the alarm on the health care crisis facing Nevada since Republicans in Washington took away tax credits that 30,000 southern Nevadans depend on to afford their health insurance. 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