# Annie Andrews Ran on Fixing Healthcare. The First Big Challenge Arrives Soon.

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/annie-andrews-ran-on-fixing-healthcare-the-first-big-challenge-arrives-soon/
- Published: 2026-11-06T20:40:17+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-06T21:35:51+00:00
- Original publisher: Mother Jones (publisher lean: Left)
- Original article: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/11/annie-andrews-ran-on-fixing-healthcare-the-first-big-challenge-arrives-soon/
- Topics: Americas, Elections, Government, Middle East, Politics, World

## Key points

- Annie Andrews says reversing Medicaid cuts will be her first priority.
- The cuts could leave an estimated 10 million people uninsured.
- She warns hospital pressures could raise costs across healthcare.

## Summary

South Carolina paediatrician Annie Andrews won the state’s first Democratic US Senate seat in nearly 30 years, campaigning in part on the strain facing American healthcare. She says her first priority in Congress will be to reverse Medicaid cuts due to take effect next year, warning they could worsen hospital access and costs across the health system.

The article says a 2025 law introduced Medicaid work requirements and administrative hurdles that could leave an estimated 10 million people without coverage. Andrews argues that people who lose insurance may delay care until they need emergency treatment, leaving hospitals with unpaid bills that can drive up costs for privately insured patients. Medicaid supports nearly 67 million low-income people nationally; in South Carolina, it funds nearly half of births and six in ten nursing-home beds. The article also describes growing private-equity ownership across healthcare, with more than $1 trillion spent on acquisitions in the past decade.

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