Watch Affordable PA’s Ad “Lynn” Here

March 3, 2026

Allentown, PENNSYLVANIA - Today, Affordable Pennsylvania launched a new digital spot calling out Congressman Ryan Mackenzie for voting for health care cuts to pay for billionaire tax breaks.

The ad, “Lynn,” features a home care worker from Allentown who works 80 hours a week providing care for others. In the ad, she calls out Congressman Mackenzie’s vote to increase health care costs and questions why everyday working people like herself are suffering while the ultra-wealthy get bigger tax breaks.

“I work 80 hours/week as a home care worker. I have health conditions that require medication and regular infusions, but healthcare isn’t part of my benefits, so I rely on the ACA to access the care I need. If I don’t get this care, I can’t do my job. But thanks to my congressman’s decision to prioritize billionaire tax breaks over an extension of these health care tax credits that lower the cost of care, my monthly premiums jumped from $400 to over $700/month,” said Lynn, home care worker from Allentown. “There are not enough hours in the day to work more. I don’t know how I will afford this price hike. Congressman Mackenzie needs to remember who he works for and stand up for the Lehigh Valley community and our health care.”

Congressman Mackenzie’s vote last summer for the Republican Tax Law cut Medicaid by over $900 billion to give bigger tax breaks to billionaires and big corporations. Medicaid provides health coverage to almost 3 million Pennsylvanians, including over 160,000 of Congressman Mackenzie’s constituents. These cuts will not only rip care away from over 300,000 Pennsylvanians across the Commonwealth and nearly 19,000 in Mackenzie’s district, but also threaten 60,000 health care jobs across the Commonwealth. Local hospitals like St. Luke’s Easton and St. Luke’s Sacred Heart could be at risk of closure due to Medicaid cuts.

The legislation also failed to extend critical health care tax credits that 21,000 Pennsylvanians in PA-07 relied on, raising Pennie costs by an average of 102% across Pennsylvania and 178% in the district - the second highest price hike across the Commonwealth. The massive cuts to Medicaid and ACA marketplace coverage will also drive up the number of uninsured Americans in every state and congressional district in the country, including 26,000 Pennsylvanians in PA-07.

Read a Transcript of “Lynn” Below:

Lynn: I’m a home care worker.

I work eighty hours a week, on top of caring for my mom and family.

I have to keep a lot of balls in the air at once.

It’s already hard to juggle it all, and now everything is getting more expensive.

Then Congressman Ryan Mackenzie voted to increase health care costs.

On top of that, my coverage went from $400 to over $700 a month.

That’s too much to carry.

Why is Ryan Mackenzie voting to give tax breaks to billionaires while people like me pay the price?

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