Opportunity Wisconsin joined Kenosha-area seniors, health care workers, and advocates in holding Rep. Steil accountable
Monday, May 8, 2023
KENOSHA, Wis. – Last week, Opportunity Wisconsin, For Our Future Wisconsin, and Protect Our Care Wisconsin, along with Kenosha-area seniors, health care workers, and community leaders, joined together to call on Congressman Bryan Steil to fight to lower costs for working families and stand up to corporations
Participants highlighted Rep. Steil’s long record of voting against Wisconsin families. Recently, Rep. Steil voted for a dangerous plan that would give $6 billion in tax breaks to corporations, while reducing food assistance for seniors, cutting access to care for veterans, and threatening massive cuts to education and child care funding. Rep. Steil also voted against the Inflation Reduction Act, which lowered insurance premiums and capped the cost of insulin at just $35 – a drastic shift for many seniors who were paying hundreds of dollars a month for this life-saving medication.
Kenosha News: In Kenosha demonstration Wisconsin group calls on U.S. Rep. Bryan Steil to vote lower drug prices
A group of Wisconsin activists, health care workers and seniors called on U.S. Rep. Bryan Steil to work on lowering health care costs for working families during a rally Thursday afternoon in Kenosha.
Individuals with the Opportunity Wisconsin coalition gathered in Library Park, 711 59th Place, where they criticized Steil’s record in Congress. Steil, R-Janesville, represents the state’s first congressional district, which includes Kenosha County.
They criticized Steil’s vote for Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s Limit, Save, Grow Act of 2023, the Republican bill which would raise the debt limit and deeply cut spending over the next 10 years.
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Opportunity Wisconsin decried Steil’s opposition to the Inflation Reduction Act, which lowered insurance premiums and capped the cost of insulin at $35 a month for some seniors.
Cierra Chesir, the southwest Wisconsin regional lead of Opportunity Wisconsin, said it’s important to hold Steil accountable for his record.
“We are wanting to hold Rep. Steil accountable for some of the votes he’s taken against lowering health care costs, more specifically prescription drugs,” Chesir said. “Every one of his constituents needs to be heard.”
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Joe Zepecki, state director of Protect Our Care Wisconsin, spoke about rising prescription drug costs during the demonstration.
“Last year, Mr. Steil had the opportunity to vote for the Inflation Reduction Act, which finally allowed Medicare to use its bulk purchasing power to negotiate for lower drug costs,” Zepecki said. “That legislation also capped the cost of insulin for people seniors on Medicare at $35 a month. Mr. Steil voted no. That was his choice.”
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