Sunday, March 26, 2017
TODAY IS A GREAT DAY FOR THE MILLIONS OF AMERICAN PEOPLE -
Today is a great day for the millions of people who stood up and said we are not gonna give $300 billion in tax breaks to the wealthiest Americans while throwing 24 million people off of health insurance. But please remember, our goal is to provide health care to every man, woman and child in this country. We have to keep fighting.BERNIE SANDERS
Friday, March 24, 2017
Your message has been received - U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders
| de: | U.S. Senator Bernie SandersSenator@sanders.senate.gov | ||
| para: | sccbesme.humanidade@gmail.com | ||
| data: | 24 de março de 2017 20:59 | ||
| assunto: | Your message has been received | ||
| enviado por: | sanders.senate.gov | ||
| assinado por: | senate.gov |
Dear Friend:
Thank you for taking the time to fill out my webform and share your thoughts. This note is to let you know that your message has been received.
For more information about issues I am working on in Congress, please be sure to visit my website at http://sanders.senate.gov. Again, thank you for contacting my office.
Please do not respond to this email address, if you would like to contact my office please click here: http://sanders.senate.gov/
Sincerely,
Bernard Sanders
United States Senator
http://sanders.senate.gov
UPDATE: AHCA pulled without a vote
| de: | Jeff Weaver, OurRevolution.cominfo@ourrevolution.com | ||
| responder a: | info@ourrevolution.com | ||
| para: | Paulo Augusto Lacaz <sccbesme.humanidade@gmail.com> | ||
| data: | 24 de março de 2017 19:03 | ||
| assunto: | UPDATE: AHCA pulled without a vote | ||
| enviado por: | bounce.bluestatedigital.com | ||
| assinado por: | ourrevolution.com |
Paulo Augusto,
There’s breaking news from Capitol Hill that I need to share with you.
House Republicans failed to whip enough votes in their own caucus to pass the so-called American Health Care Act. Fearing humiliation, House Speaker Paul Ryan didn’t even have the confidence to bring this sloppily-crafted bill to the House floor for a vote.
This clumsily-disguised corporate welfare bill was so toxic that it makes you wonder if the reason Republicans hate government so much is because they’re just no good at it.
People are struggling to meet the costs of rising premiums deductibles and prescription drugs.
After the Republicans’ failure, progressives have an opportunity to show why single-payer, Medicare-for-all coverage is our best hope to fix the problems in our current system.
Let’s be clear about AHCA, also known as TrumpCare: It was yet another obscene scheme to enrich the people who have spent millions of dollars lobbying this Congress and bankrolling their political ambitions. And like the White House’s racist Muslim ban, we need to be ready when House Republicans take another stab at our health care. We need to push for single-payer now.
In California, progressives are organizing to help pass S.B. 562, a bill that would establish universal, single-payer coverage for residents. And in Trump-voting coal country, West Virginians are speaking out for health care as a right. All across the country, Our Revolution is working to bring all of us together for a Medicare-for-all, single-payer health care system.
We can bring about the change we need, but only if we do it together. Thank you for all that you do.
In solidarity,
Jeff Weaver
President
Our Revolution
Paulo Augusto,
There’s breaking news from Capitol Hill that I need to share with you.
House Republicans failed to whip enough votes in their own caucus to pass the so-called American Health Care Act. Fearing humiliation, House Speaker Paul Ryan didn’t even have the confidence to bring this sloppily-crafted bill to the House floor for a vote.
This clumsily-disguised corporate welfare bill was so toxic that it makes you wonder if the reason Republicans hate government so much is because they’re just no good at it.
People are struggling to meet the costs of rising premiums deductibles and prescription drugs.
After the Republicans’ failure, progressives have an opportunity to show why single-payer, Medicare-for-all coverage is our best hope to fix the problems in our current system.
Let’s be clear about AHCA, also known as TrumpCare: It was yet another obscene scheme to enrich the people who have spent millions of dollars lobbying this Congress and bankrolling their political ambitions. And like the White House’s racist Muslim ban, we need to be ready when House Republicans take another stab at our health care. We need to push for single-payer now.
In California, progressives are organizing to help pass S.B. 562, a bill that would establish universal, single-payer coverage for residents. And in Trump-voting coal country, West Virginians are speaking out for health care as a right. All across the country, Our Revolution is working to bring all of us together for a Medicare-for-all, single-payer health care system.
We can bring about the change we need, but only if we do it together. Thank you for all that you do.
In solidarity,
Jeff Weaver
President
Our Revolution
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
REPUBLICANS MADE “IMPROVEMENTS” HEALTH CARE
Paul Ryan said that Republicans made “improvements” to their so-called health care bill. Well, if you’re in the top 2 percent or you are the CEO of a big pharmaceutical company, yes the Republicans did make major improvements for you. Under these “improvements” the top 2 percent will receive an additional $31 billion in tax breaks on top of the $275 billion already included in the Republican bill. Big pharmaceutical companies will now be getting $3 billion more — $33 billion in total. And instead of getting a $145 billion tax break, big insurance companies will be getting a $161 billion tax break — $16 billion more. Meanwhile, tens of millions of Americans will still lose their health insurance and premiums for low-income seniors will still skyrocket. They will still be left in the cold. The Republican bill is not a health care bill at all. It is a massive tax break for the rich and powerful and it must be defeated.
I WAS VEHEMENTLY OPPOSE OBAMACARE. THEN IT SAVED MY LIFE.
| de: | Jeff Jeans info@ofa.us | ||
| responder a: | info@ofa.us | ||
| para: | Paulo+Augusto Lacaz <sccbesme.humanidade@gmail.com> | ||
| data: | 22 de março de 2017 16:18 | ||
| assunto: | I vehemently opposed Obamacare. Then it saved my life. | ||
| enviado por: | bounce.bluestatedigital.com | ||
| assinado por: | ofa.us |
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| Friend --
I was a lifelong Republican and worked on Ronald Reagan and George Bush's campaigns. My grandparents were even invited to Reagan's inauguration. I vehemently opposed Obamacare when it became law, as I recently shared during my question to Paul Ryan during a televised CNN Town Hall.
But then Obamacare saved my life.
I took a new job and moved my family across the country -- but due to a glitch, my employer was unable to offer health care coverage. I lost my voice and ignored it for quite some time, thinking it was an allergy. My voice never returned, and I was having difficulty breathing, so my wife made an appointment with the doctor. I was diagnosed with stage III, borderline stage IV vocal cord cancer, and I had no health insurance. We offered cash upfront to pay for my treatments but were denied over and over again. We had always assumed that if you had money that you could get treatment. We were wrong -- six weeks away from being dead wrong!
Although I had cancer, Obamacare gave me access to an insurance card, and I began receiving life-saving treatments the day my insurance plan took effect. I would be dead if it weren't for Obamacare, the same law I had so loathed.
People across the country have received life-saving care, thanks to Obamacare. But that isn't stopping the House from moving forward with a vote to repeal the law, tomorrow.
Now it is my time to give back and work on behalf of the legislation that saved my life, helping others to avoid the same pitfalls I had fallen into. Health care should not change with every new administration, and we should be able to rely on steady, affordable care with guaranteed patient protections.
Access to timely treatment, affordable medication, and regular doctor visits are essential for every American.
Obamacare allows people to take responsibility for themselves, purchase insurance, and pay for their own care. Repealing it with no adequate and immediate replacement will destabilize the health care market and leave millions of my fellow cancers survivors at risk in the future. Constant worry about having affordable care is an added stress that no patient needs.
After my experience gaining health care through the Affordable Care Act, I began a Facebook page called "Obamacare Saved My Life." It has given me the opportunity to meet thousands of others who are reliant on Obamacare for coverage -- and they are terrified about the future. My wife and I share that same anxiety, even though I've been cured of cancer and am one of the lucky ones. It would only take one incident of cancer, one heart attack, one stroke, one bad car wreck, or a bad fall to join the ranks of those labeled as "pre-existing." It only takes one test to show that you have high cholesterol or high blood pressure to be thrown into that group with us.
Americans now know what better health care is, and we should all demand it -- for the well-being of our citizens and our economy -- for America. Anything less is simply not an option.
If you agree, make your voice heard now:
Thanks,
Jeff Jeans
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Sunday, March 19, 2017
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