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NRCC Releases Hard Hitting Ad Against Jennifer Wexton

The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) today began airing their new ad featuring the Democratic nominee for Virginia’s Tenth Congressional District, Jennifer Wexton, and her record on voting to raise taxes while in the Virginia State Senate.

Years ago, Wexton supported the largest tax increase in the history of the Commonwealth – almost $6 billion. The measure boosted the sales in the Northern Virginia area, delivering a blow to hard-working, middle-class constituents.

Furthermore, Wexton supported then-Governor Terry McAuliffe’s increased toll rates on Interstate 66, which skyrocketed to over $46 in April of this year. As well, this delivered a blow to middle-class voters in Northern Virginia who commute to and from work every day.

“Self-proclaimed tax and spend liberal Jennifer Wexton is dead-set on continuing her record of raising taxes on Northern Virginia,” said NRCC Communications Director Matt Gorman in a press release. “They couldn’t afford her in the State Senate; they can’t afford her in Congress.”

Of course, this is no surprise to her supporters as Wexton has been committed to raising taxes at every opportunity she has had during her career in the Virginia State Senate. The legislator has supported over 30 – yes, 30 – state tax increases.

The ad from the NRCC follows Congresswoman Barbara Comstock’s first ad, which also centers on taxes, a priority issue for the Northern Virginia middle class.

During her time in Congress, and before in the House of Delegates, Comstock has fought successfully for tax cuts, jobs programs, and education initiatives to bolster the economy of the Northern Virginia area.

On the other hand, Wexton’s record proves she is complicit with spending the hard-earned money of Virginians. Moreover, if Wexton gets to Washington, the child tax credit will be slashed in half, and overall she pledges to raise taxes on families in the Northern Virginia area by an average of $2,400.

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Scott Taylor Supports Bill To Nullify Insurance Gag Clauses And Promote Healthcare Transparency

Sometimes paying out-of-pocket for a medication at the pharmacy counter could be cheaper than using an insurance plan, but patients are unaware due to gag clauses within contracts between pharmacy benefits managers and insurance companies. However, a new federal law could ensure better transparency, allowing patients to save money on prescriptions.

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In An Homage To Obama, Leslie Cockburn Promises Voters They Can Keep Employer Provided Healthcare Plans Under Medicare For All

In Virginia’s Fifth Congressional District, Republican candidate Denver Riggleman and Democratic candidate Leslie Cockburn went head-to-head in a debate last night, discussing everything from President Trump, to the economy, to laws surrounding firearms. Though, the main point during the debate centered on the state of the U.S. healthcare system and how people pay for care.

For over an hour, as reported by NBC 29, Riggleman and Cockburn sparred on the topic of healthcare. Cockburn pledged her support for a single-payer, “Medicare for All” healthcare system. In her explanation of the proposed system, the author and journalist cited Canada and Germany, two countries which operate with a single-payer system, as a prime example of the plan, with her saying that people in those countries pay half of the cost compared to the U.S. healthcare system.

During the exchange of viewpoints, the debate moderator asked Cockburn: “What if I have employer-provided heath insurance, and I like it?”

Cockburn replied: “First of all, you would, definitely, in any of these proposals, and there are several of them, you would be able to keep your employer insurance on the exchange.”

We’ve heard this one before. We all know how it turned out.

Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), many people liked their insurance plan and their doctor, but they could not keep their insurance plan or their doctor…period.

Medicare for All, or M4A, a plan championed by Bernie Sanders, will cost $32.6 trillion, all paid for by taxpayer dollars.

A study conducted by the Mercatus Center of George Mason University, “The Costs of a National Single-Payer Healthcare System,” found that plan would, under conservative estimates, increase federal budget commitments by the above amount during its first 10 years of full implementation, 2022 through 2031, assuming enactment in 2018. The projected increase in federal healthcare spending would equal approximately 10.7 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2022, rising to nearly 12.7 percent of GDP in 2031, and further thereafter.

Riggleman countered her point with a prediction that Medicare would become bankrupt by 2025, adding that people should be able to choose their own care, not the federal government.

“It’s cruel and unusual punishment to think the government can take care of everyone’s healthcare,” Riggleman said.