HEALTH CARE EMERGENCY ACTION PLAN

We have 18 days to save the ACA.
This is a health care emergency.  Every day of delay is a win.
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THE PLAN

Congressional Stakeouts to Save Health Care (Moveon.org/Stakeout)

Starting this week:  Members of Congress return home for a scheduled “district work period”  Thursday & Friday, 3/16 and 3/17

We will gather outside the district offices of select members of Congress—nine Republican Senators and 23 Republican Representatives who hold the decisive votes—for peaceful “Stakeouts to Save Our Health Care” from 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. on both days. By holding vigil all day at their offices, we’ll make sure that anyone coming in or out of the office—staff, visitors, the members of Congress themselves—have to come face to face with us, their constituents, and our health care stories our signs, our songs, our hopes, our anger, and our cheer.

The theme is health care emergency—so bring crutches, slings, stethoscopes, anything you've got that signifies health care. (And snacks, coffee, hand-warmers, and lawn chairs!)

Have a GOP Senator or Representative? Sign up for 1-hour shifts & captain roles.

Anywhere else? Sign up to recruit staker-outers

Details here:  Moveon.org/Stakeout

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Right now, today, the number of uninsured Americans is at an all-time low.  The numbers as of Q1 2016 (according to census data):

• Total Uninsured Rate: 8.6% (exceeded 10%)
• 18-64 Only: 11.9% (nearing 10%)
• 0-17 Only: 5.0%
• Over 65: Not typically counted in ACA-related studies, it’s near 100% according to this study.

Trump and the GOP ran on ending this.  He promised repeal and replace on Day 1.
That hasn’t happened.  Faced with opposition on Day 1 (the Women’s March, protests at Congressional offices, rowdy town halls, hundreds of thousands of phone calls), the GOP has encountered a lot of speed bumps.  They are afraid that if they can’t get repeal done now they will lose momentum.  We have three weeks to stop them.

WHAT is the GOP/Trump plan?

• It costs more, and covers less.
  • Cost for an average person is $1,542 higher in year one
  • People 55-64 years old will see an average cost increase of $6,971 per year by 2020
  • Over 15 million people will lose coverage completely

• It ends Medicaid as we know it
  • Block grants to the states
  • No longer guaranteed
  • Hundreds of billions of dollars in cuts
  • Millions lose coverage
• Defunds Planned Parenthood

 
WHY is the GOP so set on this?

• Huge tax cut for the wealthy
  • Richest 400 Americans get an average $7 million tax cut per year
• Special tax breaks for rich insurance company CEOs
  • Insurance CEOs making $500,000+ per year get their own tax cut
• Middle class gets nothing
  • Average tax cut for a family making less than $200,000 year is $0

WHEN do they plan to pass this?

• GOP plans to jam this through in March.
• House has already voted in two committees
• Full House vote expected the week of March 20
• Senate plans to vote the week of March 27 on the exact House bill

 
The GOP is doing this under the rules of budget reconciliation, so there is no Senate filibuster to save us.  They only need 51 votes to pass the GOP/Trump bill.

This is a health care emergency.  Every day of delay is a win.

So HOW do we stop it?

We stop it by flipping 22 Representatives, or 3 Senators. 

WHO can we flip?

There are 22 GOP Representatives from districts that Clinton won.

1. FL-27             Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
2. FL-26             Carlos Curbelo
3. CA-21            David Valadao
4. VA-10            Barbara Comstock
5. MN-3            Eric Paulsen
6. CO-6             Mike Coffman
7. CA-39            Ed Royce
8. CA-49            Darrell Issa
9. IL-6                Peter Roskam
10. CA-25            Steve Knight
11. CA-45            Mimi Walters
12. AZ-2              Marth McSally
13. NY-24           John Katko
14. TX-23            Will Hurd
15. WA-8            Dave Reichert
16. CA-10            Jeff Denham
17. PA-7              Pat Meehan
18. Tx-32            Pete Sessions
19. CA-48           Dana Rohrbacher
20. TX-7              John Culberson
21. KS-3             Kevin Yoder
22. NJ-7              Leonard Lance
23. PA-6             Ryan Costello

There are 9 Senators that we think are movable.

1. AK   Linda Murkowski
2. AR   Tom Cotton
3. AZ   Jeff Flake
4. ME  Susan Collins
5. NV  Dean Heller
6. OH  Rob Portman
7. WV Shelley Moore Capito
8. LA   Bill Cassidy
9. CO  Cory Gardner

 
NOTE:  Every member of Congress, Republican and Democrat, needs to hear from their constituents to stop this bill, so that they don't just vote but lead the effort to stop this bill in Washington.
 
We have 18 days to save the ACA.
This is a health care emergency.  Every day of delay is a win.
 ​
THE PLAN

Congressional Stakeouts to Save Health Care (Moveon.org/Stakeout)