After dissecting Miller-Meeks bogus attempt to paint herself as a healthcare advocate, my thoughts turned to a story I read earlier this week concerning Josh Turek’s contrasting his views with those of his opponent Ashley Hinson.
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Much as Rep. Miller-Meeks is trying to fool Iowans on her record on elderly issues, so too is Republican senate candidate Ashley Hinson. But Democratic senate candidate Josh Turek is not sitting idly by allowing Hinson’s misrepresentations go unchallenged. And as noted in the video above, Turek has a better plan to cover ALL Iowans.
But Turek and others also brought up laws passed by Republicans and President Donald Trump in the past year they believe would need to be reversed by Congress in order to avoid further healthcare provider closures and increased costs. They cited Medicaid cuts and changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) made through the 2025 “Big, Beautiful” law.
Turek said Hinson, who currently represents Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District, “voted for the largest Medicaid cut ever” when she supported the tax and spending law last year. He said the law will hurt Iowans most who are already facing difficulties obtaining healthcare.
“Two in five Iowans who rely on Medicaid in rural communities are already seeing the impact of these cuts, with rural healthcare and hospitals closing,” Turek told reporters. ” Just since the passage of the ‘Big Beautiful’ bill, five Iowa healthcare centers have announced closures, elimination of units, significant reduction in services, to both rural and urban communities. Many of these clinics seek cuts coming their way, and know they just can’t survive.”
Turek also brought up Hinson’s vote against extending Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax subsidies. U.S. Rep. Zach Nunn was the only member of Iowa’s all-GOP federal delegation to vote in favor of extending the enhanced ACA tax credits, which expired at the 2025, and led to higher premium costs for people receiving healthcare coverage from ACA Marketplace plans.
“When you’re looking at a state with a legitimate healthcare crisis — only state with a growing cancer rate, closed 250 more healthcare clinics than we opened — then what has she done?” Turek said. “She has voted to see 110,000 Iowans lose their health care, thousands more lose their basic food assistance, just to give tax breaks to billionaires. Voted against the ACA subsidies, as you heard out here, what that has done to Iowans, seeing their healthcare premiums double, triple, quadruple.
“She’s not looked out for Iowans, she has just looked out for billionaires, large corporations, lobbyists, and donors … that’s not what Iowans are, and that’s not what we stand for, that’s not what I’m going to be up there. I’m not taking a nickel of corporate PAC money, I’m going up there to fight for Iowa and Iowans, and that’s going to be certainly fighting for their healthcare,” Turek said.
Don’t be fooled by Republicans in populist’s rhetoric. When given a chance to support the common Iowan, Iowa Republican politicians always opt to help the billionaire.
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