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karadin:

In Case You Missed It
The Senate voted 51 to 48:

1. To end coverage for preexisting conditions, veterans benefits, and aid to rural hospitals.
2. To remove discrimination protection for women in healthcare.
3. Against the provision allowing children to remain on their parent’s insurance till the age of 26.
4. To cut off funding for the Child Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
5. Against ACA contraceptive coverage and maternity care provision.
6. To direct committees to send budget legislation to defund and repeal the Affordable Care Act.

For those who get health insurance through work, no pre-existing conditions. Lifetime caps for coverage are back for everyone.

Real and disastrous actions are being taken that will affect more than just the 20-30 million people who will lose their health care coverage and the 3 million people who will lose their jobs.

Despite their assertions of this being an action to “repeal and replace,” no viable alternative plan has been proposed.
The House votes Friday.
As of this moment, no replacement exists.

Apparently, Speaker Ryan has had his phones cut off because of the volume of calls, so here is his mailing address:
1233 Longworth HOB
Washington, D.C. 20515
Fax: (202) 225-3393

Don’t have the time or resources to mail a physical letter? Use that fax number!

“But I don’t have a fax machine!” Through websites like faxzero.com, you can fax document files for free. No printing, no postage, no leaving the house to get to the mailbox.

Faxzero lets you send up to five 3-page faxes per day. There are lots of sites that do this, but I’ve used faxzero before, so I know it works. I checked their page just now and they’ve even put links up to fax your congressperson or senator.

Calls are more effective, but when the lines are down, we can still be heard.