Protect Our Care Campaign Director Leslie Dach called on Republican Senators to keep their promise to their constituents and vote no on the motion to proceed on health care repeal today. “Make no mistake, a vote on the motion to proceed is a vote for health care repeal. It’s a vote to destroy health care…
Marge of Madison, TN writes: I am a small business owner in Middle TN. Because of the ACA, I have been able to offer my staff (all 8 of them) excellent health care coverage, with no worries about preexisting conditions. The proposed changes will probably double the premiums for my "mature" employees and who knows…
~5 Facts Tell the True Story~ President Trump is scheduled to have another taxpayer-funded session of lies, distractions and distortions about health care today in order to push his devastating health care repeal. Here are 5 facts about the Affordable Care Act that President Trump is unlikely to admit at his events today: …
For Immediate Release July 24, 2017 Contact: Ashley Wilson, awilson@networklobby.org, 202-601-7856 More than 7,000 Sisters Sign NETWORK Lobby ‘Nuns’ Letter Against ACA Repeal 13 Catholic Sisters in Tennessee Join Nationwide Call on Senate to Cast “Life-Affirming NO Vote.” (City, State) – Today 7,150 Catholic Sisters from all 50 states and Washington, D.C., including 13 from…
This Week In Healthcare News Remember ‘read The Bill’? Now, The Gop Won’t Tell Us Which Bill To Read The Senate is just days away from a vote to repeal health care, but the problem is that no one knows which secret plan they’re voting on and exactly how much damage it will…
Advocacy Groups Say GOP Plans Would Harm Millions Of Americans (Nashville, Tennessee) – Today, AARP and the American Medical Association (AMA), two of the country’s largest patient and provider advocacy groups, urged the Senate to abandon plans to repeal or replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA). In a letter to the Senate, the AARP urged…
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released an expert analysis of the latest health care repeal scheme from Republican leaders in the Senate. Guess what? It said the same thing as the previous ones – health care repeal would devastate people’s health care. Every single time CBO has evaluated a health care repeal plan…
(Nashville, Tennessee) It doesn’t matter what version of health care repeal Republicans put forward, they’ve each proven to be completely devastating for the American people – cutting coverage, raising costs, gutting Medicaid and weakening protections — just to give the wealthy and drug and pharmaceutical companies another tax break. The newly-released CBO report on…
Reported Offer Nowhere Near Enough to Undo Coverage Cuts (Nashville, Tennessee) – A new analysis from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) reveals that the GOP’s last-ditch effort to repeal health care – by offering $200 billion to win over Senators from Medicaid expansion states – is not nearly enough to offset the damaging…
(Nashville, TN) The Senate is just days away from a vote to repeal health care, but the problem is that no one knows which secret plan they’re voting on and exactly how much damage it will do. And that’s exactly how GOP leaders like it. Republican Senator John Cornyn, the Majority Whip, today said…