Rep. Eli Crane Wants to Spike Your Health Care Costs by 2500 per Month — and We’re Supposed to Say “Thank You”?
Roadrunner65 here. Just got out of the Safeway in Holbrook, Arizona and am standing on a corner. Yeah, no girl in a flatbed Ford checking me out because I'm 30 miles too far East, and I'm a goofy looking desert bird not a suave dude who plays guitar, but never mind that...
If you're from this neck of the tumbleweed woods, grab your blood pressure meds — while you can still afford them — because Congressman Eli Crane is on board with a health care "plan" that could jack up your insurance 2500 bucks a month or 416 percent.
Not 16%.
Not even 116%.
four hundred and sixteen percent.
That’s an extra $2,505 a month.
The Ugly Details
Crane keeps supporting eliminating the ACA tax credits that currently help more than 42,000 people in the Congressional district he represents from afar (spoiler alert: “he don't live here”) keep their heads above water.
And if you think this is a one off — no. This is a pattern.
Just a few months ago, Crane gleefully cast a vote that would’ve kicked 27,000 of his constituents off Medicaid and taking at least three rural hospitals in his district off life support.
DCCC Spokesperson Lindsay Reilly summed it up succinctly:
“Eli Crane is completely out of touch.”
Actually, she was being polite.
With the Affordable Care Act subsidies, we had it all, but Rep Crane left us for Mar-a-Largo,
We’re waiting hours for doctors while he's flying first-class cargo,
You traded our clinics and skipped our town halls for cocktails and a faux-patio—
Baby, why’d you go to Mar-a-Largo?
Sorry bad 80s song flashback there, but on with the story…
While Crane is out there trying to turn AZ-02 into a healthcare wasteland, Jonathan Nez is right here in rural Arizona offering something a bit rarer in politics these days: competence, common sense, and compassion.
As the former Navajo Nation President, Nez dealt with chronic underfunding, sprawling rural health gaps, and a pandemic that hit Native communities harder than almost anywhere else. And guess what?
He didn’t respond by saying “Hey, how bout we close more rural hospitals?”
He didn’t propose a $2500 a month price hike and call it “innovation.”
Nope. Nez actually fought for more clinics, more funding, more access, and more care.
Imagine that — a leader trying to keep people alive instead of seeing dying patients as potential “cost savings”.
To find out more about Jonathan Nez or to contribute you can click here. Tell them a little birdie told you he needed some end of quarter Christmas cash. Meep meep!
