Rep. Bresnahan Supported Health Care Cuts to Fund Billionaire Tax Breaks, Failing to Prevent Skyrocketing Health Care Costs

December 10, 2025

Scranton, PENNSYLVANIA - Last week, Congressman Rob Bresnahan hosted Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) administrator Mehmet Oz in Scranton for a health care conversation focused on health care in the region.

Affordable Pennsylvania’s executive director Rachele Fortier released the below statement following the event:

“Instead of working to prevent skyrocketing health care costs for their constituents, Republicans in Congress prioritized gutting assistance programs to give bigger tax breaks to billionaires and shutting down the government for 43 days. Now, with less than 10 days left in session before the tax credits are set to expire, they are presenting short-term plans with minimal support. The 25,000 Pennsylvanians in PA-08 who rely on these tax credits for affordable and accessible care deserve a representative who fights to prevent skyrocketing costs. We are calling on Rep. Bresnahan to take action now - back the measure to extend health care tax credits for at least three more years.”

Congressman Bresnahan has so far failed to stand up for working families in NEPA to lower health care costs. This summer, he voted to pass the Republican Tax Law that makes historic cuts to Medicaid that will rip care away from 340,000 Pennsylvanians, threaten hundreds of thousands of health care jobs, and will shutter rural hospitals across the Commonwealth. He has also failed to extend enhanced health care tax credits that make care more affordable for 25,000 of his constituents. Without these tax credits to expire, Pennie enrollees in the district are seeing an 84% increase in average monthly costs.

It remains unclear how gutting Medicaid to pay for bigger tax breaks for billionaires or kicking the can down the road on extending expiring health care tax credits is helping to “lower costs, increase access, and improve quality of care” like Oz claimed they’re working to do. Affordable Pennsylvania urges Congressman Bresnahan to sign onto the discharge petition to vote to extend these tax credits for three years.