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The Senate Republicans will hide in the shadows cast by Comey’s testimony to gut health care. Remember to call your Senators and say:
Hello, my name is _____ and my zip code is ______. I am calling today to tell Sen _______ to demand that Senator McConnell and his cronies bring their “response” to the AHCA into the light. Their work on healthcare affects all people in America; it should be done with complete transparency. Senator _______ must also fight to save the ACA. Lives are on the line and rely on the actions of Sen _______. They must fight to save the Affordable Care Act. Thank you.
Trump and Graham both showed us their cards today, and clearly conveyed that ACA destruction now moves from Paul Ryan to Tom Price.
If the bill is dead, as it appears to be, the internal sabotage of the ACA will ramp up very quickly. This has already been going on at a state level since its implementation, but the GOP put Price at HHS specifically because of his hatred for the law. It will now be strategically underfunded and poorly administrated as a matter of course.
The intent will be to sabotage its new popularity by sabotaging its function.
By all reasonable measures this shouldn’t work. Voters should see through this charade. People have been learning that they like having health insurance that’s reliable and the law’s popularity is up, but confirmation bias is a powerful thing. Conservatives know that all they need to in order to shore up their activist base is to demonstrate government failure. We’ve seen this play before, and it works in the US, just like it would work anywhere that voter turnout is low enough for an activist base to influence an election.
Because Ryan didn’t give in to the Freedom Caucus’s demands to destroy health insurance for almost everyone, he’ll now be painted as a reasonable moderate by a media clamoring to interview a sane-looking person from the right. The Republican Party will immediately attack him for that stance, as they shift to their old standby “it would’ve worked if only it was more conservative” argument, to spin the deliberate destruction.
We hear this argument after every GOP-initiated disaster or GOP loss. It is as predictable as the setting sun.
Call it “explode” or call it “collapse,” this familiar strategy of deliberately bad government starts today.
Two physicians with decades of experience studying death rates relating to changes in health coverage have concluded that repealing Obamacare is fatal.
Republicans are not advertising it, but today, 1.31.2017 is the last day to sign up for Obamacare. If you sign up today your healthcare will remain in effect for at least one year.
Yes, you should still enroll in coverage before the January 31 open enrollment deadline. When you enroll in coverage, you and the health insurance company enter into a contract that is generally binding for a year (no matter how the law changes). This means that if you enroll in coverage now then you will have coverage throughout 2017.
Yesterday, we hosted a tumblr Issue Time about the Affordable Care Act. Here’s our most popular question. You can sign up for health insurance and have it for 2017 if you sign up by tomorrow (1/31/17).
He may stop the ads, but nothing beats old fashioned word of mouth. Make sure everyone you know (and those you don’t know) they can still sign up for obamacare/ACA until January 31st!
the more people sign up, the less eager republicans will repeal it, especially those in swing states and districts, and we only need three GOP senators to vote no on repeal.
Are you an American? Do you have a sec to stand up for the millions of poor people, disabled people, people with pre-existing conditions and freelancers who rely on the ACA to keep them, y’know, not-broke and not-dead? (Hi!)
Do you live in Alaska, Arizona, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee or West Virginia?
Congrats: you have a Republican Senator who has publicly expressed some concern about repealing the ACA without a replacement plan! If you haven’t already, this is your reminder to give their offices a call and help them make up their minds!
Alaska – Lisa Murkowski:
(202)-224-6665
Arizona – John McCain:
(202) 224-2235
Arizona –
Jeff Flake:
(202) 224-4521
Kentucky – Rand Paul:
202-224-4343
Louisiana – Bill Cassidy:
(202) 224-5824
Maine – Susan Collins:
(202) 224-2523
Nevada – Dean Heller:
202-224-6244
Ohio – Rob Portman:
(202) 224-3353
Pennsylvania – Pat Toomey:
(202) 224-4254
Tennessee – Bob Corker:
(202) 224-3344
Tennessee
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Lamar Alexander:
(202) 224-4944
West Virginia – Shelley Moore Capito:
202-224-6472
Sample call script:
“My name is [YOUR NAME]. I’m a constituent calling to thank [YOUR SENATOR’S NAME] for having the integrity and foresight to see how disastrous it would be to [YOUR STATE] and to the rest of America if Congress votes to repeal the ACA without first agreeing on a solid replacement plan. Not only would it jeopardize the health and economic security of millions of Americans, it would also place a tremendous financial strain on our hospitals and our entire healthcare system, costing potentially hundreds of thousands of jobs. As you know, in [YOUR STATE], we [SOMETHING PERSONAL ABOUT HEALTH CONCERNS SPECIFIC TO YOUR STATE; YOU MIGHT WANNA DO A 30-SECOND GOOGLE. IF NOTHING ELSE SURFACES, JUST SAY YOUR STATE BELIEVES IN SOME POSITIVE CHARACTER TRAIT THAT IS ASSOCIATED WITH KEEPING HEALTHCARE AFFORDABLE FOR AMERICANS, LIKE “LOOKING OUT FOR YOUR NEIGHBOR” OR SOMETHING.] As a voter, this is a vital issue to me, and I will be paying close attention to how [SENATOR’S NAME] votes.”
Call today if you haven’t already, and bug your local friends/family to call, too!
We only need to flip three senators, so it’s not impossible. Do this before this Friday, the 27th.
I’m sorry to ask this of you–I know there’s a lot of these things going around right now–but I depend on the ACA for my healthcare and I’m pretty damn terrified.
I have bronchitis. Thanks to the ACA, I was able to get medicine for $0. #ThanksObama
LIES.
that came from taxes I paid.
Well, let my know how much I owe you and I’ll drop a few pennies in the mail. War comes from taxes you paid, and I personally dislike the amount I pay going for that… Maybe we should check “yes” or “no” on our 1040 forms this year for allocation of tax dollars.
I’m sorry you think I’m lying, but I’m not. I qualified for the Medicaid expansion under the ACA, which is partially funded through taxpayer revenue. I don’t think the IRS mailed you a letter saying, “Nah nah nah nah naaaaaaah! This year’s tax dollars went to pay for medicine for poor people mwahahaha!” Who knows? Maybe YOUR portion of tax dollars went to a Hellfire missile that took out a village in Afghanistan. Ooh, how exciting for you!
Comfort yourself with that thought as I use my inhaler, which I would not have been able to afford without the ACA.
what the fuck is wrong with Americans who aren’t on board with free healthcare. I’m Canadian and I don’t care that I pay extra taxes so a little boy in Alberta can have open heart surgery, or an elderly man in Nova Scotia can get the heart medication he desperately needs. It’s called taking care of your people. I’m glad I pay so that people can have a good quality of life. It’s called being a decent fucking human being.
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UK agrees!
Well this seems worth reposting this week.
This post from three years ago received the most notes of anything I’ve put up here.
Fun fact:
After getting this medicine, I got back up on my feet and got a temp job, which then led to me getting a full time job I’ve had for three years. I haven’t been eligible for Medicaid since September of 2014. I have a great policy I purchased on the state exchange. I paid federal taxes in 2015 and 2016 gladly.
And now these spineless, heartless, greedy, craven, Nazi-humping shitheels want to take it away from all of us. Call your representatives. Make your voices heard. The repeal has already begun. But it’s still not too late.
