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CousinIT

(9,247 posts)
Tue Jan 3, 2017, 10:18 PM Jan 2017

ACTION needed re: ACA - there may be a vote TOMORROW

Please send the following email ASAP to the list of Senators and Congresspeople below - or call their offices in the morning TOMORROW. Feel free to edit the wording in any way you see fit - in fact it's encouraged. But please no "CAPS" and no foul language or accusations or nastiness - it won't help!. Be sure to address it to "The Honorable ....." and sign it. (yea, I know calling some of them "Honorable" could make you hurl) Thanks in advance for whatever you can do. I appreciate your help.

THE LIST:

Your two Senators in Washington (find them at senate.gov)
Charles Schumer, Minority Leader (senate.gov)
Mitch McConnell, Majority Leader (may need to call)
Your local Representative in Congress (congress.gov)
Nancy Pelosi, Minority Leader (may need to call)
Paul Ryan, Speaker of the House (may need to call)

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I understand that on 4 January 2017 there may be an attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act in one or both houses of Congress. I am writing to you to urge you to vote NO on any attempt to repeal the ACA on that day or any other day.

With such a repeal, millions of people would stand to lose access to medical care at the very time that it is needed most. In my opinion, such loss would return the system of medical care to a point when insurance companies controlled access to care - an unacceptable system that was largely responsible for increases in costs before ACA was implemented and which also was largely responsible for the loss of millions of lives and livelihoods due to lack of health care and/or inability to pay the enormous costs.

Please vote NO if repeal of the ACA comes up for a vote on the floor. I understand that the ACA needs some changes or "tweaks" to make it more effective, but a complete repeal of the law is not the answer.

Best Regards,

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ACTION needed re: ACA - there may be a vote TOMORROW (Original Post) CousinIT Jan 2017 OP
How in the fuck is this happening? onecaliberal Jan 2017 #1
I even mailed Rubio DonCoquixote Jan 2017 #2
Please put the message in your own words, copy & paste is taken less seriously Maru Kitteh Jan 2017 #3
K&R halobeam Jan 2017 #4
KICK. PLEASE CONTACT YOUR REPS ON or BEFORE 1/5/2017! CousinIT Jan 2017 #5

DonCoquixote

(13,616 posts)
2. I even mailed Rubio
Tue Jan 3, 2017, 11:48 PM
Jan 2017

YUK, but I made sure to ohrase it that if they do this before trump even moves out of trump Tower, where he can talk abotu the repeal AND replace he kept promising, the GOP would own this one hundred percent. I also reminded him that seniors do vote in Florida.

Maru Kitteh

(28,341 posts)
3. Please put the message in your own words, copy & paste is taken less seriously
Wed Jan 4, 2017, 12:34 AM
Jan 2017

however, even a copy & paste is probably better than nothing.

Thanks for posting this, CousinIT

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