Doctors’ groups are against the latest Republican effort to repeal Obamacare and gut health care, writing that “The proposal fails to protect the health care coverage and consumer protections available under current law.” Public hospitals are against it. Planned Parenthood is against it, calling it “especially terrible for women.” The AARP is against it, bluntly tweeting that “it’s a bad plan.” But Senate Republicans are still trying to get the votes to pass Graham-Cassidy, and that should make us all nervous. Specifically, it should make us all nervous in a calling-our-senators-and-taking-action-every-way-we-know-how way:
Indivisible’s policy director Angel Padilla told TPM that even if the GOP’s senators’ trumpeting of the bill’s chances turns out to be “a big headfake,” he wants to make sure he and other activists did all they could to oppose it.
“Earlier this summer, the Senate tried and failed in an embarrassing way. They want to avoid that same embarrassment at all costs. So if they’re pushing it now, that means they’re confident, which makes me really nervous,” he explained. “I know they’re projecting confidence and faking momentum to gain momentum. But we don’t think it’s worth assuming anything. If there’s a real threat here, we have to make sure we meet that threat. We don’t want to make the mistake a lot of people made back in May by thinking this is dead.”
There is, as they say, a big difference between mostly dead and all dead, and it’s time to call your senators until Graham-Cassidy is all dead.
Thought Obamacare was safe? Think again. Republicans are reviving their repeal effort and we must stop them. Keep calling your Senators at (202) 224-3121 and tell them DON’T REPEAL OBAMACARE! (After you call, please tell us how it went.)