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CousinIT

(9,245 posts)
Sun Apr 30, 2017, 03:07 PM Apr 2017

MoveOn Washington Director: "Folks don't realize how close the GOP is to repealing ACA right now"

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Folks don't realize how close the GOP is to repealing the affordable care act right now.

Unlike last time, they have the Freedom Caucus—and not only that, the Koch brothers and conservative movement apparatus is on board 2/

Simply because there's so damn much else going on, and because Trump isn't talking about it, this isn't the by-far-#1 story yet—but 3/

if the GOP does pull the votes together, they'll move very quickly. And the Senate could move faster than one would imagine. Moreover, 4/

The GOP has something to pull in moderates: $150 billion. To fund "high risk pools," which don't work, but that's a lot of dough. 5/

House GOP leadership is spending this weekend intensively negotiating to get moderate Rs on board. They're close. 6/

The only thing that will stop the House moderates from shredding health care is massive pressure from their constituents. Pronto. 7/ <------- http://www.house.gov/representatives/ CALL YOUR REPUBLICAN REPS TODAY AND TOMORROW AND EVERY DAY UNTIL THIS IS OVER! (NO Democrats are voting for it!)

House Republicans need to feel that they'll lose their jobs if they vote for this bill. Full stop. And by rights, they SHOULD over this.

The new AHCA bill is even worse than the old one. Shreds protections for people with preexisting conditions. Vicious, dangerous, needless.


The new version of DonTCare all in one graphic:






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MoveOn Washington Director: "Folks don't realize how close the GOP is to repealing ACA right now" (Original Post) CousinIT Apr 2017 OP
Sample letter to my representative ... CountAllVotes Apr 2017 #1
THANK YOU for contacting your Rep and sharing! CousinIT Apr 2017 #3
Thank You Alt-Orange Apr 2017 #29
E-mail sent! Mountain Mule May 2017 #39
Rules meeting Monday. Whips are working all weekend to get votes. . . Calls TODAY & MONDAY CRUCIAL. CousinIT Apr 2017 #2
Whoever made this list blueinredohio Apr 2017 #31
Thank you for calling your Rep. I think the list might be the "moderates" CousinIT Apr 2017 #35
AARRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGH pangaia Apr 2017 #4
Thousands of Veterans and Their Families Would Lose Insurance Under the AHCA CousinIT Apr 2017 #5
K & R. PA Democrat Apr 2017 #6
After the last election, I have become more cynical. Blue_true Apr 2017 #7
Problem is, letting them feel the pain subjects us all to it. If it just affected the idiots CousinIT Apr 2017 #9
We keep saving them from themselves and they STILL hate us! Boomerproud Apr 2017 #15
I don't care about saving them. I don't care if they hate us. CousinIT Apr 2017 #18
If we all go down together, the majority may finally wake up Drahthaardogs Apr 2017 #26
Don't hurt me over their actions -nt Bradical79 Apr 2017 #10
One day, these treasonous rat bastards will get theirs. Initech Apr 2017 #8
Their only chance is a sneak attack. nt SunSeeker Apr 2017 #11
Message auto-removed Name removed Apr 2017 #12
I don't want them to do it but if they do...2018 and 2020 will be a bloodbath DemocraticSocialist8 Apr 2017 #13
What happened to the Ohio Republican who said, "This would be my late healthcare vote adigal Apr 2017 #33
Well... sarah FAILIN Apr 2017 #14
Well you bringing it up won't help. It's been discussed in several threads. Leave it alone. YOHABLO Apr 2017 #25
Yes ma'am. sarah FAILIN Apr 2017 #27
Done voteearlyvoteoften Apr 2017 #16
THANK YOU. CousinIT Apr 2017 #20
This truly is Left-over Apr 2017 #17
If they do, my SO who is in the middle of cancer treatments, will likely die. If that happens, all airmid Apr 2017 #19
These are the kinds of stories these bastards need to be confronted with. CousinIT Apr 2017 #21
I have written a "Letters to the Editor" for the local paper. It just seems there are so many airmid Apr 2017 #22
I'm so sorry. I know this has to be nerve-wracking for you. CousinIT Apr 2017 #28
Show up at his office. Maybe we need to show up at their houses adigal Apr 2017 #34
Yes...this is in my plans as well. Right now chemo and other treatments consume most of my airmid May 2017 #36
In response to "Message auto-removed ... Name removed" (#12) progree Apr 2017 #23
nice response Locrian May 2017 #38
The only solution is a single payer: national healthcare system YOHABLO Apr 2017 #24
How much more will they try to suppress the vote? CousinIT Apr 2017 #30
Everybodys insurance will get effected by this. Demtexan Apr 2017 #32
SHAMELESS KICK. CALL YOUR REPS THIS MORNING! n/t CousinIT May 2017 #37
Where did the GOP suddenly find $150 Billion to fund a high risk pool? It's not in the budget, which Honeycombe8 May 2017 #40
TrumpDontCare is making me feel great again bucolic_frolic May 2017 #41

CountAllVotes

(20,872 posts)
1. Sample letter to my representative ...
Sun Apr 30, 2017, 03:18 PM
Apr 2017

Asking that you vote to protect the Affordable Care Act so people do not lose what insurance they have, esp. those with pre-existing conditions that are not able to find coverage. The replacement by the Trump admin. has yet to be seen and what has been seen in part so far is a big joke! Protect the American people and please vote to protect the Affordable Care Act and do not allow yourself to be bullied by this joke of a "president"!

ON EDIT: Feel free to use this letter ad infinitum!!

CousinIT

(9,245 posts)
3. THANK YOU for contacting your Rep and sharing!
Sun Apr 30, 2017, 03:35 PM
Apr 2017

We need a MASSIVE opposition to this. Their email and voice mail boxes slammed and their phone lines jammed.

Important to tell them they WILL. LOSE. THEIR. JOBS. if they support this. Even many conservative voters will be pissed at them. This greed-driven, psychopathic hideousness is purely designed to please the Koch Bros and other robber barons ( big Ins, Big Pharma, etc.)

Mountain Mule

(1,002 posts)
39. E-mail sent!
Mon May 1, 2017, 12:08 PM
May 2017

Used your sample and added, "Please note that I am not being paid to e-mail or call you. I am one of your VOTING constituents."

As I said in my reply to a second thread on this subject, Colorado Senator Cory Gardener likes to blow off his constituents' concerns by calling them "paid callers." If anyone else from Colorado reads this, be sure and let Gardener know that you have not been "paid" when you call him. What a loser!

CousinIT

(9,245 posts)
2. Rules meeting Monday. Whips are working all weekend to get votes. . . Calls TODAY & MONDAY CRUCIAL.
Sun Apr 30, 2017, 03:31 PM
Apr 2017



TRUMPCARE UPDATE: Rules meeting Mon. to decide on a vote next week. Whipping moderates this weekend. Calls today, Mon. are vital. (pls RT)


blueinredohio

(6,797 posts)
31. Whoever made this list
Sun Apr 30, 2017, 08:37 PM
Apr 2017

forgot my a**hole of a rep who is Bob Latta. I've called his office and e-mailed only to get replies how the ACA is no good and going under. Hope someone primaries him. He only has telephone townhalls and I don't know what he's afraid of because my county is 75% republican so I guess he thinks he will always have a job.

CousinIT

(9,245 posts)
35. Thank you for calling your Rep. I think the list might be the "moderates"
Sun Apr 30, 2017, 10:56 PM
Apr 2017

...the ones Koch/Freedumb Carcass and Lyin Ryan are trying to convince to vote 'yes' on DonTCare 2.0.

pangaia

(24,324 posts)
4. AARRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGH
Sun Apr 30, 2017, 03:37 PM
Apr 2017

I come home from the GyM have a lite lunch and have to read this shit..

Not you Counsin.. LOLOLOL




Thanks for poasting haow bad it relyy is typos not my dault..i just emailed my congressperson,chris collins or as we in the ny27th call him the congressional shit asshole fuckface


CousinIT

(9,245 posts)
5. Thousands of Veterans and Their Families Would Lose Insurance Under the AHCA
Sun Apr 30, 2017, 03:44 PM
Apr 2017
This article was written prior to DonTCare v1.0. It's even WORSE with DonTCare 2.0....

Will Fischer, an Iraq war veteran, isn't too fond of the current House Republican plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

“When we see rollbacks like this, I don’t see how anyone can think that’s a positive thing,” says Fischer, the head of government relations at VoteVets, a progressive veterans organization. “We want to ensure that people don’t have to make a choice between buying their child lunch and buying their child medicine.”

The rollback Fischer is referring to is the possible repeal of the Affordable Care Act, and a nod to President Donald Trump's promise to "get our veterans the care they need wherever and whenever they need it." Trump has vowed to cut wait times at the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) and increase the number of mental health professionals available.

But the GOP's recently released American Health Care Act—which the president supports—would put many vets at risk of losing access to the care they need.

Hundreds of thousands of veterans and their family members have gained coverage under Obamacare, or the ACA, according to research from the Urban Institute, a socioeconomic think tank. In fact, a study published by the Urban Institute last fall reported that the rate of uninsured veterans dropped by 42% between 2013 and 2015. That increased coverage has translated into fewer vets reporting that they can't afford their hospital bills or have an unmet medical need, says Jennifer Haley, a research associate at the Urban Institute and one of the authors of the report.


https://time.com/money/4699647/gop-health-care-plan-veterans/

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
7. After the last election, I have become more cynical.
Sun Apr 30, 2017, 03:58 PM
Apr 2017

Maybe it is time for democrats to let people that vote republican or who don't vote feel the pain of what they vote for or feel too pure to vote against.

CousinIT

(9,245 posts)
9. Problem is, letting them feel the pain subjects us all to it. If it just affected the idiots
Sun Apr 30, 2017, 04:01 PM
Apr 2017

that would be great - but it affects us ALL.

Boomerproud

(7,952 posts)
15. We keep saving them from themselves and they STILL hate us!
Sun Apr 30, 2017, 04:16 PM
Apr 2017

I am at a total loss as to how to save myself from these #@^%!@

CousinIT

(9,245 posts)
18. I don't care about saving them. I don't care if they hate us.
Sun Apr 30, 2017, 04:27 PM
Apr 2017

I care about saving the majority - the rest of Americans who did not ask for and do not deserve to be denied life, health, opportunity, clean air & water, healthcare, a decent job and a decent education - basics - at the hands of greedy, capitalist psychopaths. Especially kids, elderly, veterans, and those abused or seeking refuge from abuse.

Drahthaardogs

(6,843 posts)
26. If we all go down together, the majority may finally wake up
Sun Apr 30, 2017, 05:30 PM
Apr 2017

Let my Republican boss pay $17,000 for his wife to have their baby. Too many people cussing farmers with a mouthful of food

Response to CousinIT (Original post)

 

adigal

(7,581 posts)
33. What happened to the Ohio Republican who said, "This would be my late healthcare vote
Sun Apr 30, 2017, 10:11 PM
Apr 2017

in Congress if I vote for this??"
If they do it, I know my Rep Stefanik will vote for it. We will then hang this around her neck for 2018 and she will be GONE.
We will get back both the House and the Senate and can begin the impeach/remove/arrest that needs to happen NOW.

sarah FAILIN

(2,857 posts)
14. Well...
Sun Apr 30, 2017, 04:16 PM
Apr 2017

Some people are too distracted by Obama getting paid to speak, so the reps can pretty much do as they please. We are easily distracted by shiny objects these days.

We need to get focused on what is important imo and leave the petty fighting behind.

sarah FAILIN

(2,857 posts)
27. Yes ma'am.
Sun Apr 30, 2017, 05:34 PM
Apr 2017

Whatever you say. Certainly wouldn't want to point out our shortcomings. No need in talking about that. The less you talk about it, the quicker it gets fixed.

Left-over

(234 posts)
17. This truly is
Sun Apr 30, 2017, 04:26 PM
Apr 2017

This Don.TCare if I have ever seen it. These smug a**holes have public healthcare and cannot care at all if someone less fortunate than them has any coverage at all. Unless they can make more money off of it.

airmid

(500 posts)
19. If they do, my SO who is in the middle of cancer treatments, will likely die. If that happens, all
Sun Apr 30, 2017, 04:27 PM
Apr 2017

bets will be off on how I deal. I have called my waste of skin Rep so often I am now blocked. It's not like Warren Davidson gives a sh*t about me or my family.

CousinIT

(9,245 posts)
21. These are the kinds of stories these bastards need to be confronted with.
Sun Apr 30, 2017, 04:32 PM
Apr 2017

And the DEMOCRATS and MEDIA as well. If you use FB or twitter, tell the Dems about your SO and what repeal of ACA will mean to your family (they help you get publicity). If you can make a video and post it that would be even better - tag the dirtbag on the video or the story or blog post.

airmid

(500 posts)
22. I have written a "Letters to the Editor" for the local paper. It just seems there are so many
Sun Apr 30, 2017, 04:37 PM
Apr 2017

stories today. They also seem more sympathetic if it is a child who may die.(Gods forbid) I don't sleep much now for worrying but try my best to hide it. I think there are many like me. I wonder how many of us will survive this admin....

 

adigal

(7,581 posts)
34. Show up at his office. Maybe we need to show up at their houses
Sun Apr 30, 2017, 10:13 PM
Apr 2017

Just like Dems did in Brooklyn to Chuck Schumer. He got the message loud and clear. If we don't make them uncomfortable, why would they give a damn what we think?

airmid

(500 posts)
36. Yes...this is in my plans as well. Right now chemo and other treatments consume most of my
Mon May 1, 2017, 03:44 AM
May 2017

time. I was a frequent visitor to Boehner's office when he was my Rep. Normally all I ever saw there was staff, but he got sick of me quick.

progree

(10,908 posts)
23. In response to "Message auto-removed ... Name removed" (#12)
Sun Apr 30, 2017, 04:39 PM
Apr 2017

who said:

[font color = blue]>>Pre-existing conditions is great for the few who have been previously excluded but for the many who simply get insurance as future protection, it gouges them every time they pay their premium.<<[/font]

Sometime before you reach age 65 (Medicare age) you will, with high probability, acquire one of those pre-existing conditions. Maybe not of the severity that made it impossible to get coverage in the old days, but one that would have resulted in much higher premiums.

And be grateful that Medicare doesn't discriminate against people with pre-existing conditions (yet). So don't be a fuckhead, fuckhead.

And back to the ACA (Obamacare) -- premiums for young people are 1/3 as much as those for 60-64 year olds, in recognition that young people have fewer health problems and fewer "preexisting conditions" than older people. So it's not like you are paying full freight for older people's healthcare.

Locrian

(4,522 posts)
38. nice response
Mon May 1, 2017, 12:05 PM
May 2017

I would add to it that if the poster is so worried about fairness and paying twice etc, that maybe it's a good argument for gov sponsored healthcare.

Everyone covered, nobody "cheating" by only paying when they're sick etc.

 

YOHABLO

(7,358 posts)
24. The only solution is a single payer: national healthcare system
Sun Apr 30, 2017, 05:05 PM
Apr 2017

They're fighting against that because these fat cats will lose their hold on their profits and people's lives.

Damn right 2018 is coming and so is 2020. If the Republicans continue to surpress what the majority of the people in this country want: it could get pretty ugly. We have our work cut out for us.

CousinIT

(9,245 posts)
30. How much more will they try to suppress the vote?
Sun Apr 30, 2017, 06:11 PM
Apr 2017

Can they suppress it enough (or collude with a nasty foreign power enough to rig it - which they WILL do again if they get away with it this time) to overcome the backlash from the majority having their healthcare and lives and livelihoods taken from them?

Or, will SHitler gin up a war (he sure is trying!) or some economic collapse give him cover to enact extremist policies that will add insult to injury of Americans healthcare being taken away?

This is literally a WAR between the greed-driven billionaires and the rest of us. And it's one we have to win. Our lives depend on it. To SHitler and his cretinous capitalists, it's all a game. To the rest of us, it's life or death.

Demtexan

(1,588 posts)
32. Everybodys insurance will get effected by this.
Sun Apr 30, 2017, 09:56 PM
Apr 2017

The whole country will feel the pain.
It worse before it gets better.

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
40. Where did the GOP suddenly find $150 Billion to fund a high risk pool? It's not in the budget, which
Mon May 1, 2017, 12:46 PM
May 2017

was already done.

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