Our work in asking Senator Jerry Moran to re-think his vote for the BCRA worked. He, along with Senator Mike Lee of Utah, voted NO and defeated the bill this past Monday. However, on Tuesday, our fellow senator came back to say he’d support the Repeal-Only bill that was introduced Monday night and added the caveat, “We should not put our stamp of approval on bad policy.”

A Senate health care bill appears to be coming up for a Motion To Proceed vote this coming week. Like us, are you confused by which bill is floating around in the hallways of the Capital? Well, there appears to be two: BCRA is the repeal-and-replace ACA bill and the ORRA is the repeal-ACA-only bill. Even the Senate doesn't know which bill they'll be voting on. You can find more details HERE.

We NEED to keep calling so we can kill this bill for good. The graphic contains the phone numbers for our Senators. We've made so much progress. Do not stop now.

The BCRA 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.