What I found to say:
Dear Senator,
According to the most recent survey, 61% of Americans
oppose the most recent Republican proposed healthcare plan, 65% oppose your
proposed cuts to Medicaid, even after they’ve heard your arguments for them,
71% do not want a total repeal of the ACA, or Obamacare, but would rather you
work with Democrats to make improvements to the nation’s healthcare. I am
joining all these other citizens, as well as consumer groups, patient
advocates, doctors, hospitals, addiction-treatment centers, insurance
companies, religious leaders, governors, both Republican and Democratic, and
your fellow colleagues in the Senate, to urge you not to vote for your
healthcare plan to become law.
It is a hot mess.
It is not OK to throw more than 20 million Americans off
their insurance plans, some of whom are in the midst of battling deadly medical
problems.
It is not OK to slash Medicaid so deeply. Medicaid goes
to poor children, poor pregnant women, the disabled, including about 160,000
profoundly disabled children here in Texas, and most of the elderly residing in
nursing homes across the country. (42% of Medicaid’s costs come from the
elderly living in nursing homes.) Those are the people you are going to take
from? No.
It is not OK to allow insurance companies to offer
products that don’t actually offer coverage, that don’t cover things like
emergency room visits and prescriptions. Such a product isn’t insurance; it’s a
scam. Shame on you for attempting to allow it.
This is not a game, Senator. This is millions of people’s
health. Quit rushing. Quit trying to simply win political points by insisting
on repealing everything we have now just because it has President Obama’s name
on it. Look at what we have and fix it. Do it for the good of your fellow
Americans, your constituents, and not just yourself.
By the way, I will know that you have come up with such a
plan when I see that you don’t exempt yourself and your family from it.
Thank you.
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