Congratulations and Keep It Up! National Day of Action Saturday, July 29
Posted July, 28 2017 by Taylor Frazier
Last night, Senate Republicans failed in their last ditch effort to repeal the ACA and dismantle Medicaid. A huge thank you to our members, partners, and friends for all of your hard work and activism over the last nine months.
Your resistance is the reason they keep failing.
Unfortunately, the fight is not over. The President is still threatening to end Cost Sharing Reduction payments that reduce out of pocket costs for moderate income Americans and there is a House budget proposal that would cut trillions of dollars from Medicaid and other health care and entitlement programs over the next 10 years.
Seven of NY’s Representatives voted to pass an anti-health care bill in the House: Chris Collins, John Faso, Peter King, Tom Reed, Claudia Tenney, and Lee Zeldin. They may soon have another chance to decide our fate through the budget process – this Saturday, show them in person that those first votes were a mistake!
Here’s what you ca do to stay engaged:
- Join people across the country at demonstrations. We already know about events in places like Beacon, Kingston, Delhi, New Hartford, New York City, and Glens Falls. We’ll add events to our eventspage as soon as we learn about them so keep checking!
- You could also plan your own event! The Our Lives on the Linesite has some tools to help you do this, but all you really need to do is show up at your Representatives’ offices with signs or letters telling them not to support any bill that takes health care away from people.
We’ve come so far – and we won’t stop fighting now!