{"id":83,"date":"2017-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/calchurches.planetpov.com\/impact\/index.php\/2017\/01\/12\/senate-to-finish-voting-on-aca-repeal-house-to-begin-no-replacement-plan-exists-call-now\/"},"modified":"2017-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"senate-to-finish-voting-on-aca-repeal-house-to-begin-no-replacement-plan-exists-call-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/2017\/01\/12\/senate-to-finish-voting-on-aca-repeal-house-to-begin-no-replacement-plan-exists-call-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate to finish voting on ACA repeal; House to begin. NO replacement plan exists. CALL NOW!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dear Friends:<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>With the midnight action to begin repeal of the Affordable Care Act last night, the budget reconciliation process, the push to gut the entire plan moves forward.\u00a0 Two GOP Senators – Susan Collins of Maine and Rand Paul from Kentucky – are possible bulwarks against “repeal but don’t replace”.\u00a0 We need to contact them.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>However, now the House intends to use budget reconciliation, possibly tomorrow, Friday the 13th, to do the same.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>This will gut funding for ACA and by extension, Medicaid.\u00a0 In California this is Medi-Cal and carries different names in different states.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>From analysts Maura Calsyn and Thomas Huelskoetter of the Center for American Progress comes this assessment:<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>First, they plan to repeal key parts of the Affordable Care Act\u2014including the law\u2019s Medicaid expansion\u2014through the budget reconciliation process without yet offering any replacement plan. Second, congressional plans to drastically restructure the Medicaid program will make coverage less secure for those who remain enrolled in the program.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>President-elect Trump will enter office armed with a variety of tools to undermine Medicaid\u2019s safety-net guarantee, as well as with a Republican Congress eager to pass legislation to roll back the ACA\u2019s Medicaid expansion and leave the remaining Medicaid program underfunded. It will be extraordinarily difficult to push back against these actions. But the first critical step is recognizing that the rhetoric of state flexibility and state innovation is really just a cover for an end goal\u2014to gut the Medicaid program.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>In California Medicaid expansion has been an enormous boon to public hospitals, greatly reducing the unfunded “charity care” for the desperately poor and homeless.\u00a0 It has been a huge benefit to lower income working families that long went without medical care at all but now have reliable treatment including massive prevention of things such as childhood diseases, pneumonia, diabetes and a host of other illnesses and conditions.\u00a0 The cost of care will skyrocket as once again people take to the Emergency Rooms for treatment of conditions that have finally worsened to a desperate level.\u00a0 This is NOT a saving for society – it is an increase in costs via tax demands for ER support.\u00a0 We know anecdotally that those without any insurance get less care since the charge to ERs is to stabilize, not make people well.\u00a0 They cannot handle that kind of caseload and, as pre-ACA, may well have to close leaving all of us without recourse to health emergency care.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>Raise your voice against this vicious false economy!\u00a0 It is antithetical to every single principle we hold dear in America and certainly in our faith.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>Contact our Senators to resist “repeal without replacement” and the the House to stop their budget reconciliation cuts as well.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>Go to: http:\/\/www.churchimpact.org\/take-action.html<\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 to contact both your Senators and your Representative.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>To contact Senators Collins and Paul\u00a0 or Senate and House leadership if you wish to be heard, please call the US Capitol Switchboard:\u00a0\u00a0 (202) 224-3121 <\/strong>and ask to be connected.\u00a0\u00a0 Contacting legislators outside your district is not effective but DOES make popular will clear. Numbers matter here in terms of the public record of support and opposition for ACA.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>As a note to CA residents:\u00a0 last night Senator Dianne Feinstein did not vote.\u00a0 She was in the hospital getting a pacemaker. She is fine, and she is back at work today, but her absence was essential and not indifferent.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>We will do our best to keep you up to date, but things are obviously moving very fast, and your “Faithful Five Minutes” can keep ahead of us on any and all issues.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>Thank you! You are doing the work of justice!\u00a0 Pass the word!\u00a0 And please sign up others to get our alerts – we are trying to keep up with changes and updates, but your help in doing so would greatly improve our outreach.<\/span>
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