Senator Heller returns to Nevada this weekend and faces scathing local headlines and editorials calling out the dangerous Republican Senate health care bill that would strip 22 million Americans’ access to health care and gut Medicaid. The latest CBO report confirms spending cuts would grow even deeper in the second decade increasing by 35% by 2036, causing even more unnecessary anguish for Nevadans.

Newspapers across the state are making it clear that Sen. Heller should not support the GOP’s cruel repeal bill.

Reno Gazette-Journal: Rural Nevada to lose all Obamacare plans next year

“Blaming the uncertainty over health care reform in the U.S. Senate, insurance carriers will stop offering plans under the Affordable Care Act in nearly all of Nevada's rural counties, including Carson City and Douglas County.

“In total, about 8,000 Nevadans will lose their insurance, with no options to buy a different subsidized plan on the federal health exchange. More than 5,000 of the people affected live in Carson City, Douglas, Storey and Lyon counties.”

Las Vegas Review-Journal: Study says Senate bill would halve federal Medicaid funding to Nevada

“Health care legislation before the U.S. Senate could cost Nevada half its federal Medicaid funding and leave one-quarter of the state’s adult residents under 65 without health insurance, according to a new analysis.”

“The report Wednesday by the Washington-based Urban Institute think tank, which assumes Medicaid expansions under the Affordable Care Act would be eliminated over the next five years, estimates that would cost the state $1.7 billion in federal Medicaid funding and add about 328,000 Nevadans to the rolls of the uninsured — a 78 percent increase — over that time frame.”

Las Vegas Review Journal: UMC faces financial blow if Congress erases state Medicaid expansion

“If the state tried to foot the bill for the Medicaid expansion itself, Sandoval said, the $121 million it now costs to cover the additional 210,000 Nevadans would jump to more than $400 million a year by 2024, as the federal portion was phased out. Both Sandoval and Heller said it was virtually impossible for the state to make up the nearly $280 million shortfall.”

Senator Murkowski returns to Alaska this weekend and faces scathing local headlines and editorials calling out the dangerous Republican Senate health care bill that would strip 22 million Americans’ access to health care and gut Medicaid. The latest CBO report confirms spending cuts would grow even deeper in the second decade increasing by 35% by 2036, causing even more unnecessary anguish for Alaskans.

Newspapers across the state are making it clear that Sen. Murkowski should not support the GOP’s cruel repeal bill.