Make This Call Right Now

This Is Not A Chess Game. Lives Hang In The Balance On July 25, the Vice President cast a tie-breaking vote to start debate on dismantling the Affordable Care Act. Neither the Senators themselves nor the American public know for certain what the Senate will be voting on in the coming days. What we do know is that every proposal so far would result in tens of millions of Americans losing coverage and tax breaks for companies and the wealthiest (while we still shoulder the excise tax). There is much at stake with this reckless approach, whether it’s being able to keep our college-aged children insured, returning to lifetime caps, dealing with higher premiums as providers attempt to recoup costs from treating the uninsured, or worrying about how a pre-existing condition could affect our coverage and affordability in the future. Please Call 877-607-0785 right now! The final outcome is far from certain. Multiple Senators who voted to begin debate have expressed serious concerns or opposition towards past proposals. Calls are one of the most effective actions we can do and only take a moment. Please weigh in today! • • • Call 877-607-0785. The number will use your zip code to connect you. Make sure to tell your Senators who you are, where you’re from, and that you oppose this health care bill. Call back a second time to connect to your other Senator.

I Have Disgust For Bootlickers

Congress has voted more than fifty times to repeal the Affordable Care Care Act since it became law in 2009. They have had seven years to come up with a plan to replace it with but low and behold, come to find out that they have only been complaining all this time while sitting on their hands. Now, President Trump is putting on the pressure for the Senate to put something on his desk to sign and he apparently doesn’t give a damn what it looks like because he doesn’t understand medical insurance and doesn’t know what it’s like to have medical bills to pay. And these Senators, afraid of losing their cushy, high payed jobs with all the “perks” that go with it seem to be willing to just submit, regardless of how many people will lose their health insurance. They are willing to go against the wishes of their own constituents simply because they are Republicans and their political party had the repeal of “Obamacare” as one of its goals. It was a cruel, stupid goal or promise to begin with and many of them now realize it. Obamacare has helped so many people and has kept so many from declaring bankruptcy. Repealing it will result in bankruptcies to once again become the norm in America. Allowing Democrats to help them make Obamacare better than it is would be the simplest way to fix the problems with the Affordable Care Act. Republican senators don’t seem to care how many people will get hurt, suffer or die in this process. They’ll be ok, as long as they can continue to live high on the hog at our expense. We all know that there’s power in unity but there comes a time when a person needs to stick up for what he believes to be the right thing to do. Taking medical insurance away from 32 million people is not only wrong headed but it’s just plain cruel. I admire a person who is loyal, but I have thorough disgust for a bootlicker.

Fight Back against the senate health care bill

Trumpcare Bad For All But The Rich

American Health Care Act

• This American Health Care Act (AHCA) decimates Medicaid, with more than $800 billion in cuts.
  
• Donald Trump’s 2018 fiscal year budget attempts to add another $600 billion in Medicaid cuts to that figure, for a total of $1.4 trillion.
  
• It is difficult to say what the cruelest aspect of this vote is, but raiding Medicare and cutting Medicaid surely are at the top of the list.
  
• Even President Trump acknowledges that the AHCA is “mean.”
  
• President Trump could fix this by going back to his campaign promises not to cut Medicare and Medicaid.
  
• The AHCA drops the coverage guarantee for people with pre-existing conditions, strips coverage from millions and drives up costs for millions more.
  
• The House bill takes away health insurance coverage away from 23 million Americans, and the Senate is using it as their starting point.
  
• The numbers are especially troubling for anyone with a pre-existing condition. Premium increases are going to be massive for this group, which includes millions of older Americans.
  
• Among people ages 55 to 64, 84 percent had at least one pre-existing condition in 2014.
  
• The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) score confirms older Americans’ worst fears: the American Health Care Act is a disaster for older Americans who are not yet eligible for Medicare.
  
• The scenario isn’t much better for those who qualify for Medicare, since the AHCA robs the Medicare Trust Fund to pay for tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires.
  
• The transfer of wealth from the sick to the wealthy is unconscionable.
  
• We know why the House leadership was in such a hurry to pass this dreadful legislation without a single hearing, and why the Senate negotiations are being done in private: it is both dangerous and unfair.
  
• The CBO confirms some states will drop the coverage guarantee for people with pre-existing conditions. This will make health insurance a privilege for the wealthy, not a right.
  
• This legislation will destabilize the health care markets.
  
• Members of the Alliance for Retired Americans are mobilized and ready to fight tooth and nail against the AHCA in the Senate.

Source: Alliance for Retired Americans

June 14, 2017