Maggie Goodlander, Cinde Warmington Headline “Sick of It! Fix Health Care Now” Bus Tour Stop in Concord

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Concord, NH – This morning, Protect Our Care’s Care Force One arrived in Concord and was joined by Congresswoman Maggie Goodlander, former Executive Councilor Cinde Warmington, and health care advocates as part of the “Sick of It! Fix Health Care Now” bus tour, calling out Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress for taking a wrecking ball to our health care system. Across the country, hard-working families are fed up with the growing health care crisis after Trump and Republicans slashed more than $1 trillion from Medicaid and gutted Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax credits to bankroll tax breaks for billionaires and big corporations. During the event, Granite Staters impacted by Republican cuts to health care called on lawmakers to enact commonsense health care solutions, including restoring tax credits to lower insurance premiums, reversing devastating Medicaid cuts, expanding Medicare's power to negotiate lower prices for more drugs and extending those lower prices to all Americans with insurance, penalizing drug companies that raise prices faster than inflation, and protecting patients from high costs by extending the annual $2,000 out-of-pocket cap and the $35 insulin co-pay cap to people with private coverage.

“HR1 is a bill that I wish every single one of my colleagues in Congress read cover to cover, as I did,” said Congresswoman Maggie Goodlander (NH-02). “It is one of the most dangerous pieces of legislation ever signed into law in our history. The biggest cuts to your health care in American history have jacked up everybody’s costs to fund the biggest tax cuts in my lifetime to big corporations and billionaires. This has put lives on the line, this has created a crisis in New Hampshire, and it is my mission to do everything in my power, as your Representative in Congress, to fix this. I will be relentless in taking on the private equity companies, the price gouging corporations that are jacking up your costs, and we will fight with everything we’ve got to reverse these cuts to Medicaid.”

“Now more than ever, it is so important that we are speaking out loudly and clearly against these devastating and cruel cuts,” said former Executive Councilor Cinde Warmington. “These cuts are ripping health care from our most vulnerable neighbors. Granite staters are already paying more for everything right now: for health care, for groceries, property taxes, and rent. The last thing that they need are more expensive healthcare bills and more expensive prescription copays.”

“The cost of individual plans on the exchange increased by double digits this year when the ACA tax credits were cut” said New Hampshire Senator Cindy Rosenwald. “Not only has insurance gotten more expensive, but deductibles and coinsurance can be thousands of dollars for a family. On the clinical side, providers are struggling too, as Medicaid reimbursements haven’t kept up with the cost of providing care and the federal government is planning to reduce payments to hospitals for uncompensated care. As costs have risen, access to care has become a bigger problem, even if you have insurance.”

“Black women face barriers that can become a matter of life and death,” said James McKim, Manchester NAACP President. “In 2024, the maternal mortality rate for Black women was more than three times the rate of white women. Let that sink in. In the United States of America, in 2024. And it has only gotten worse in 2026. Nobody should have to walk into the doctor’s office wondering “will they listen to me? Will they believe me? Will my pain be taken seriously? Being heard should not be a premium feature of American health care. Everyone deserves to be heard. And race remains a barrier beyond women’s health. The NAACP has reports that support the statistic that one in five Black adults in New Hampshire who recently used health care said they had experienced unfair or disrespectful treatment from a provider because of their race or ethnicity.”

“Nine years ago I walked into the doctor’s office with a nagging cough and walked out with a stage four cancer diagnosis,” said Laura Packard, cancer survivor and health care advocate. “Luckily, I had good insurance that paid for the chemotherapy and radiation I needed to survive. But I’m sick of watching Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress demolish our health care system. Lawmakers need to restore the tax credits that keep premiums affordable, reverse these devastating Medicaid cuts, and make sure people like me can actually afford to survive. Cancer doesn’t wait, and neither should Congress.”

“Families across New Hampshire are sick of worrying about whether they can afford their insurance, fill a prescription or find care close to home,” said Jayme H. Simões, Protect Our Care New Hampshire. “The stories today show what is at stake. When a family struggles to obtain mental health care, or a community faces barriers to essential services, the consequences extend well beyond an insurance bill. Congress must restore affordable coverage, protect Medicaid and lower prescription drug costs. Granite Staters deserve care they can count on.”

Tomorrow, the “Sick of It! Fix Health Care Now” bus tour will continue in Pennsylvania, where Protect Our Care will be joined by Lieutenant Governor Austin Davis. For more information, click here.