Ahead of Big Beautiful Bill Anniversary, A Reminder of Zach Lahn’s Record Denying People Health Care
DES MOINES – Ahead of the one-year anniversary of D.C. insiders making the largest cuts to Medicaid in history, a reminder that longtime political operative and Kansas carpetbagger Zach Lahn has spent his career trying to keep people from getting health insurance. Lahn has yet to speak out against his party bosses ripping health care away from Iowans and closing rural clinics across the state.
Zach Lahn has a dangerous record of attacking access to health care:
- Lahn spent years as a political operative and spearheaded a campaign to block Medicaid expansion in Montana, which would’ve blocked tens of thousands of people from getting health insurance.
- 180,000 Iowans now have access to health insurance because Iowa expanded Medicaid, but that care would be under threat with Lahn in charge.
- Lahn called Medicaid expansion “bad policy” and a “mess.”
- Lahn worked to elect D.C. politicians who cast the deciding vote for the “One Big Beautiful Bill” in the U.S. Senate.
- Medicaid cuts in the budget law have threatened health care for 110,000 Iowans, put at least 23 rural hospitals on the brink of closure, and allowed premiums for 117,890 Iowans to skyrocket.
From Iowa Democratic Party spokesperson Terra Hernandez:
“Zach Lahn spent his career trying to prevent tens of thousands of people from getting health care and elected the same D.C. insiders who passed the largest cuts to Medicaid in history. Iowans who are losing their health care and seeing their premiums skyrocket know they can’t trust Lahn to stand up to these dangerous cuts.”
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