in case you needed them, here are some reminders:

wildehacked:

1) CALL YOUR SENATORS ABOUT TRUMPCARE TODAY. IF THEY VOTED FOR THE BCRA, GIVE THEM HELL. IF THEY DIDN’T, THANK THEM AND URGE THEM TO CONTINUE TO RESIST ANY AND ALL REPEALS TO THE ACA UNDER THIS UNDEMOCRATIC PROCESS. 

2) 5calls is so good, friends. It’s so good. You put in your zip code, and it provides you with a list of time sensitive issues (the ones up right now are “Denounce Trump’s Ban on Transgender Troops”, “Track the Senate Vote Tally for Trumpcare”, “Oppose Senate Republican’s ‘Skinny Repeal’ Bill”, “Governors: Voice Opposition to the ACA Repeal”, “Defend the DACA  Program with the DREAM Act”, “Don’t Allocate Money for Trump’s Border Wall–Vote This Week”, “Shut Down Trump’s Sham Election Commission”, and “Demand Trump Jr, Manafort, and Kushner Testify Publicly”.) You click on an issue that’s important to you, and it provides you with background information on that issue. Then you’re provided with a button to call your reps, which it autofills in based on your zipcode, as well as a calling script. The aim is to make five calls in five minutes, daily, and it is TOTALLY doable. You can call after hours and leave voicemails if you’re really terrified of talking to a person, but I swear it’s just as easy reading the script to a real person. I’ve never had anyone ask me a question, except for how to spell my name, and what my address is (which is what they do to track calls from constituents.) It’s so easy. I promise it’s so easy. 

3) I know a lot of people (self included) are furious about Trump’s tweets about a transgender military ban. Call about that too, if you’re moved, but please also call about Trumpcare. If your senator voted for this shit, make them feel that there are consequences. 

4) Anyway yeah if the ACA is repealed my parents–both in their sixties–will most certainly lose their health insurance. I have friends who–if there are significant cuts to Medicaid–will very probably die. There’s an invisible barrier separating the sick and the well, and not only can it collapse at any moment, it’s an absolute certainty that it will. The people you love WILL be sick. YOU WILL BE SICK. Even if you’re well right up ‘til the minute you die. (Dying, in case you didn’t know, is horrifically expensive. Always. Every time.) The BCRA is projected to kick over 22 million people off of their health insurance. 

5) No, the ACA isn’t perfect. Yes, the skinny repeal would make it worse, and not better. 

6) I know you’re exhausted. I know it’s all terrifying and it’s nonstop. Do what you gotta do, babies. Play Dream Daddy. Marathon eight straight hours of a #problematic show that you really love and makes you forget about everything. Turn off NPR. Eat some cheese. But if you could spare five minutes today–and five minutes tomorrow–and five minutes the day after. I would really appreciate it if we could do everything we could so that my friends don’t die. So that my parents don’t die. So I don’t die, or you don’t die, when it comes to that. Okay? Okay.