Republicans Dumped Medicaid-Related Stock Before Voting to Gut Program
Elizabeth Warren said Robert Bresnahan protected his stock portfolio while ripping away health care from 17 million.Quiver Quantitative, that tracks stock trades made by politicians and other prominent public figures, revealed that Bresnahan recently sold shares he’d owned in Centene Corporation, a for-profit firm that specializes in delivering healthcare exchanges for Medicaid. In the weeks since he sold his shares in the company, their value plunged by more than 40 percent. — Truthout
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“This Congressman literally dumped stock in a Medicaid provider company right before this bill came to the floor,” wrote Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.) on X. “Don’t be fooled — these guys know exactly what they’re doing.”
“Wow,” marveled Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.). “So he votes to gut Medicaid and throw 17 million people off of their healthcare and then dumps his Medicaid related stock to cover his own ass? That’s just evil and cruel.”
“If the Big Ugly Nasty Bill doesn’t hurt Medicaid, why are Republicans selling their Medicaid-associated stocks?” asked Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-Ill.). “Their words say one thing, their actions another. Their bill will gut Medicaid and kill people, and they know it.”
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) ripped Bresnahan for “protecting his stock portfolio while ripping away health care from 17 million Americans” with his vote to gut Medicaid. “This is Washington at its worst,” she added. “We need to ban Congressional stock trading.” — Truthout
Take Away: Call your MAGA rep : Hold them accountable for kicking millions of Americans of health insurance and insider trading to profit from it.
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