Iowans Can’t Afford Ashley: Iowans Continue Calling Out Hinson for Cutting Healthcare on 61st Anniversary of Medicaid
In This Week’s Edition of the Ashley Accountability Alert, Iowans Call Out Hinson for Making Healthcare More Expensive While New Reports Show Iowans Are Getting Screwed From Hinson-Backed Wars and Tariffs
DES MOINES – This week, we officially crossed 100 days until Election Day when Iowans will reject Ashley Hinson for using her office to enrich herself and her donors at their expense.
Until then, Iowans continued calling out Hinson for making their healthcare more expensive and threatening to rip away their coverage. Meanwhile, new reports revealed Hinson-backed tariffs have increased Iowa’s average household cost by $600 and that the Hinson-supported Iran war is creating a “surge of corporate profits” for massive oil companies at the expense of Iowans paying more at the pump.
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- First, local Sioux City leaders and Iowans experiencing higher health insurance premiums and diminished healthcare came together to mark the 61st anniversary of Medicaid being signed into law by calling out Ashley Hinson for making healthcare more expensive and inaccessible for Iowans.
- Hinson said she was “proud” of her vote for the biggest cuts to Medicaid in history, which threatens to kick over 110,000 Iowans off their health care.
- Also, a new report from Iowa Public Radio’s “River to River” shows Iowans are getting pummeled with price hikes, job losses, and disastrous trade wars because of Hinson’s repeated support for chaotic tariffs.
- Hinson has cost the average Iowa household $600 from her support of tariffs alone. She has voted four times to keep the tariffs in place, despite Iowans calling them a “growing disaster.”
- To round out the week, a new report found the Hinson-backed Iran war is giving massive oil companies a “surge of corporate profits” while Iowans are stuck paying nearly $1 more for gas than they did a year ago.
- Hinson has voted to support the Iran war six times, helping Big Oil net “blockbuster earnings,” including a $14.5 billion windfall for ExxonMobil, $12 billion for Chevron, and $9.8 billion for Shell.
See What Iowans Were Seeing and Reading This Week:
- Anchor: “On today, the 61st anniversary of the signing of the Medicaid law, multiple Democrats are drawing attention to cutbacks in the Medicaid system that they say have left thousands of Iowans without health coverage. […] Additional federal Medicaid cuts are scheduled to take place later this year. Dawson and those at today’s event called out Representative Ashley Hinson for supporting spending cuts, including reductions to Medicaid. ”
- Iowa Public Radio: Tariffs increase Iowa’s average household cost by $600
- “Households absorb at least 90% of the [tariffs], if not 100% of the [tariffs].”
- “Households in Iowa exhausted more of their earnings on new tariff costs.”
- “The retaliatory actions from foreign countries, like those from China on soybean and soy-based exports, or on our corn products, have the largest adverse effects, in particular, on Iowa’s economy.”
- “Tariffs decreased Iowa’s economy by $2 billion. So, it’s $2 billion smaller than it otherwise would have been.”
- “Manufacturing lost nearly 3,000 jobs due to the tariffs.”
- “The typical Iowa household spent $57,000 more [since] 2020 just to maintain the same standard of living.”
Washington Post: As prices rise at the pump, so do oil company’s profits
- Soaring prices for oil and gas triggered by the war in Iran are generating a surge of corporate profits for multinational energy companies, with Shell disclosing early Thursday morning it saw a $9.8 billion windfall between April and June.
- The profit is double Shell’s earnings for the same quarter last year.
- With a resolution to the war continuing to elude the White House, analysts warn drivers will continue to pay high prices at the pump for the foreseeable future.
Washington Post: Big oil companies reap billions off the Iran War
- Oil companies have delighted Wall Street this week by reporting multibillion-dollar windfalls in their earnings statements, with ExxonMobil and Chevron on Friday reporting a combined $26.5 billion in profits during the second quarter of the year.
- Exxon and Chevron early Friday posted their blockbuster earnings for the quarter that ended last month.
- Chevron disclosed $12 billion in earnings, reflecting a $9.6-billion jump over the same quarter last year and the firm’s biggest profit since 2020.
- ExxonMobil said Friday its earnings were $14.5 billion, more than double what the company reported for the same quarter last year.
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