Topic: NO to Trumpcare!

The vote that was scheduled for Tuesday, June 27, was delayed because of a lack of support from Republican senators. It appears the Senate will add amendments and bring the bill back to a vote during the week of July 10. The BCRA that was made public this past week didn’t solve any of the health care problems that currently exists. It instead made getting coverage worse for these groups:

• 15 million working poor families who are currently on Medicaid under ObamaCare.
• Seniors and disabled people who qualified for Medicaid before ObamaCare. The BCRA adopts a policy known as a “per capita cap” for Medicaid, where each state receives a set amount per person, and this move could mean cuts of billions of dollars from Medicaid over the next 10 years.
• Persons dealing with the opioid crisis.
• People in states with above-average Medicaid spending. This provision directly affects Kansas.
• Pregnant women and new mothers. The BCRA still contains a provision from the AHCA, where states can waive essential health benefits, such as maternity, pregnancy and newborn care.
• Older people on the exchanges. Older people under the age of 65, when Medicare kicks in, would see their premiums rise substantially, because they would no longer be capped as share of income.
• Children in special education programs. Many school districts, even well-off ones, rely on Medicaid to provide services to disabled students, and the BCRA reduces the federal dollars given to states.

Come prepared to take action and meet others who are working to resist Trump's agenda. You can engage in your free time, and there are ways for everybody to participate. We’ll be encouraging our Members of Congress in Senate and House to represent us, not Trump. If we stand together, Indivisible, we will win. You call it resistance? We call it democracy.

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