Tiffany Votes to Take Health Care From 60,000 Wisconsinites

This letter to the editor, submitted by A Better Wisconsin Together, appeared in the Hudson Star Observer on January 15, 2026.

Editor’s Note: The following is from A Better Wisconsin Together, a state-based research and communications hub for progressives and an affiliate of ProgressNow.

Republican Congressman and Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Tom Tiffany has once again voted to hike costs and take health care away from thousands of his constituents, a move that even some of his most extreme right-wing colleagues did not follow.

Tiffany voted against a measure with bipartisan support to extend the Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax credits that help provide health care coverage for millions of Americans. Without the extension of the credits, an estimated 60,000 Wisconsinites could lose their health care coverage.

Tiffany’s no vote was just his most recent against helping to lower people’s health insurance costs. Last July he was one of the deciding votes to pass Donald Trump’s MAGA budget bill that set Wisconsinites up to lose their health care, forced Planned Parenthood Wisconsin to pause abortion services and could cause permanent hospital closures in the future — all to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.

“With this latest vote, Tom Tiffany is continuing his long history of betraying his constituents to advance his own right-wing political agenda,” said Lucy Ripp, A Better Wisconsin Together’s communications director. “At a time when Wisconsin families are already facing rising costs and unaffordable health care options, Tiffany is voting for delayed care and higher costs.”

Whether it’s that Tiffany doesn’t know or that he doesn’t care, the program that he continues to vote against requires insurance companies to cover essential services like cancer screenings, routine immunizations and high blood pressure and diabetes screenings.

The ACA also includes other protections for consumers from insurance company abuses, like prohibiting insurers from denying coverage for pre-existing conditions, preventing insurers from charging women more than men for the same coverage and banning lifetime dollar limits on coverage.