Watch New Ad “Emily” Here

The Ad Highlights How Perry Has Failed to Protect Pennsylvanians’ Care and Calls on Him To Reverse Cuts to Medicaid

October 10, 2025

Harrisburg, PENNSYLVANIA - Today, Affordable Pennsylvania launched a new TV ad calling out Congressman Scott Perry’s attacks on Pennsylvanians’ health care and calling on him to reverse his harmful cuts and reopen the federal government. This is the fifth ad in Affordable Pennsylvania’s $4 million accountability campaign across radio, TV, digital and print media.

The ad, “Emily”, features Emily Stence, a PA-10 resident and Medicaid recipient, who calls out Rep. Perry’s vote to gut Pennsylvanians’ care to fund bigger tax breaks for billionaires and big corporations. In the ad, Emily urges the Congressman to protect Pennsylvanians’ health care and encourages fellow constituents to call on Perry to do the same.

Last month, Congressman Perry failed to come to a deal that protects Pennsylvanians’ health care and allowed the federal government to shut down. This shutdown comes after a Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed a funding bill last month that failed to reverse their devastating health care cuts for working families and permanently extend health care tax credits. These cuts will rip care away from more than half a million Pennsylvanians, threaten hundreds of thousands of health care jobs, and will shutter rural hospitals across the Commonwealth.

“Congressman Scott Perry represents over 180,000 people like me who rely on Medicaid to get by. Yet he voted to gut this lifeline, threatening health care for over 30,000 of his constituents to fund billionaire tax breaks,” said Emily Stence, Medicaid recipient and PA-10 constituent. “I don’t understand how Rep. Perry could continue to vote against the interest of the people he represents. I need my congressman to support lower health care costs and end this shutdown.”

Read a Transcript of “Emily” Below:

Emily: When I was twelve years old, I was bitten by a tick while I was hiking with a church group.

The infections damaged several organs.

My parents had to take out a second mortgage to pay the medical bills.

Medicaid has been a life saver.

It's like Congressman Scott Perry doesn't even see us.

Voting to slash Medicaid to give huge tax breaks to corporations.

Why should billionaires get help but people like me could lose their healthcare?

Congressman Perry needs to stand up for us.

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