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    Voting on Trumpcare Today - Speak Out!

    By librewolf on Tue, 07/25/2017 - 8:17am |

    Today Mitch McConnell is calling a vote on 'healthcare', though no one knows what they are going to be voting on. It is critical that we flood Washington with phone calls, emails, tweets, and if you are close enough, your bodies. Call your Senator's local offices, and stop by those home offices if you can. We MUST let them know in no uncertain terms that there are hundreds of millions of us who do NOT want this shredding of the Affordable Care Act, nor the massive transfer of wealth from those receiving Medicaid to the top of the economic structure.

    This site will give you links to both phone and email access to all of our senators:
    https://www.senate.gov/senators/contact/senators_cfm

    PLEASE CONTACT THEM!

    Comments

    Yeah I read at a number of sites that the Senate is going to vote on something nobody read; except that Senators do not usually read anyway; except no member of the Press and no member of the Public has even had a chance to read?

    THIS IS NUTS?

    So what else is new?

    GOOD POINT.

    Let us hope for the best.


    by Richard Day on Tue, 07/25/2017 - 9:41am

    There is a sort of warning in some predictions that former House Speaker Boehner made last week to a private group that people should also express to their reps that they want a mandate to continue:

    from Boehner predicts Republicans will ‘never’ repeal and replace Obamacare @ WaPo, July 25

    [....] Boehner said the Republicans’ best hope in the coming months is to peel away aspects of the law, such as some tax provisions and regulations, and to end health insurance mandates.

    “When it’s all said and done, you’re not going to have an employer mandate anymore, you’re not going to have the individual mandate,” Boehner said. “The Medicaid expansion will be there. The governors will have more control over their Medicaid populations and how to get them care, and a lot of Obamacare taxes will probably go.” [....]

    Without a mandate, many healthy young people will go uninsured and premiums for the insured that don't qualify for Medicaid will skyrocket. 

    Though he may be wrong, I think his predictions are worth taking seriously because he does know what many of the rank and file of his party in Congress would like to see.


    by artappraiser on Tue, 07/25/2017 - 12:25pm

    Librewolf... Yes...

    It's been an ongoing battle since last November and here's what I posted here at Dag at 6 months in...

    Indivisible Fights TrumpCare: Standing With You All The Way - May 5, 2017

    TrumpCare is a moral monstrosity.

    The next steps are much harder—and we’re going to be there, every step of the way, until this bill collapses under the weight of its own lies and cruelty.

    New resources to fight back.

    This is our chance to provide feedback to our representatives.  If your MoC voted for TrumpCare, it is critical that YOU hold him/her accountable for every one of the terrible provisions in the bill. To help you make your voice heard, we’ve put together updated and new resources:

     

    Also, check out this 30 minute video of a Facebook live event held to answer your questions:

     

    We’re standing indivisible with you.

    http://www.indivisibleguide.com/stop-trumpcare/

    ~OGD~

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    by oldenGoldenDecoy on Tue, 07/25/2017 - 1:12pm