“Hospitals Choose Between Profits and People”: Iowans Speak Out Against Health Care Cuts in Cedar Rapids
DES MOINES – On Friday, Iowans in Cedar Rapids gathered for the third stop of the Iowa Democratic Party’s “Decade of Denied Care” Tour. Speakers called out Feenstra’s vote to gut Medicaid and put rural hospitals on the chopping block, Kim Reynolds’ mismanagement of Iowa’s privatized Medicaid program, and how health care has suffered under a decade of one-party rule.
What Iowans are watching and reading:
KGAN: Iowa Democrats criticize Gov. Reynolds, Rep. Feenstra over Medicaid policy
- During the event, Gov. Kim Reynolds was criticized for how she handled the privatized Medicaid program and Republican gubernatorial candidate Randy Feenstra for voting in favor of the [One Big Beautiful Bill].
- “This didn’t start in Washington,” Donahue said. “This started ten years ago, when Kim Reynolds and Iowa Republicans made the decision to privatize Medicaid. They handed our public health care system over to private, for-profit companies.”
- “Kim Reynolds and the Iowa Republicans privatized Medicaid, and made hospitals choose between profits and people like my daughter,” Zach said.
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