{"id":1056209,"date":"2025-09-24T12:08:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T16:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1056209"},"modified":"2025-09-24T12:08:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T16:08:34","slug":"vance-returns-to-north-carolina-to-defend-the-health-care-crisis-he-created","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/vance-returns-to-north-carolina-to-defend-the-health-care-crisis-he-created\/","title":{"rendered":"Vance Returns to North Carolina to Defend the Health Care Crisis He Created"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"449\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1050776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png 1101w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=300,132 300w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=768,337 768w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=1024,449 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>JD Vance is back in North Carolina today to try to clean up Donald Trump\u2019s Big Ugly Bill mess, which will raise costs, kick <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/medicaid\/how-will-the-2025-reconciliation-law-affect-the-uninsured-rate-in-each-state\/\">450,000<\/a> North Carolinians off their health insurance, and put <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markey.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/letter_on_rural_hospitals.pdf\">five<\/a> rural hospitals at risk of closure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To avert this health care crisis, Democrats introduced a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democrats.senate.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/leader-schumer-releases-democratic-plan-to-avoid-a-government-shutdown-and-address-incoming-republican-healthcare-crisis\">proposal<\/a> last week that would have reversed these cuts to Medicaid and extended critical ACA subsidies \u2014 but every Congressional Republican from North Carolina voted no.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, JD Vance is joining every Congressional Republican in leaving town instead of coming to the table with Democrats, proving once more that Donald Trump and his Republican Party would rather shut down the government than address the health care crisis they created.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>In response, DNC Spokesperson Albert Fujii released the following statement:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cJD Vance has a lot of nerve parachuting into North Carolina after casting the tie-breaking vote on the biggest health care cut in American history. No matter how much he tries to spin it, North Carolinians know who to blame for higher costs and the looming health care crisis: Donald Trump and JD Vance. That\u2019s why Democrats are fighting to reverse these cuts and save health care for the 450,000 North Carolinians who are going to be kicked off their health insurance. While JD Vance is only looking out for Donald Trump and himself, Democrats are fighting for you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-00ee4468fe0839687d6bb499c555b90c\"><strong>Reminder: these health care cuts remain deeply, deeply unpopular.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipsos.com\/en-us\/most-americans-across-party-lines-oppose-medicaid-funding-cuts\">vast majority<\/a> \u2014 71% \u2014 of Americans oppose cuts to Medicaid.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipsos.com\/en-us\/most-americans-across-party-lines-oppose-medicaid-funding-cuts\">Over half<\/a> \u2014 55% \u2014 of Republicans oppose these cuts.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipsos.com\/en-us\/most-americans-across-party-lines-oppose-medicaid-funding-cuts\">73%<\/a> of Independents oppose these cuts as well.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JD Vance is back in North Carolina today to try to clean up Donald Trump\u2019s Big Ugly Bill mess, which will raise costs, kick 450,000 North Carolinians off their health insurance, and put five rural hospitals at risk of closure. To avert this health care crisis, Democrats introduced a proposal last week that would have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1056209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Vance Returns to North Carolina to Defend the Health Care Crisis He Created - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/vance-returns-to-north-carolina-to-defend-the-health-care-crisis-he-created\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-09-24T16:08:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-09-24T16:08:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1101\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"483\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jared Carmeli\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jared Carmeli\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/vance-returns-to-north-carolina-to-defend-the-health-care-crisis-he-created\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/vance-returns-to-north-carolina-to-defend-the-health-care-crisis-he-created\/\",\"name\":\"Vance Returns to North Carolina to Defend the Health Care Crisis He Created - 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