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	"title": "Tell Congress: Extend ACA subsidies and Medicaid now!",
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	"description": "13 million Americans are on the verge of skyrocketing health care premiums. Another 2 million are poor and uninsured. Demand Congress act to extend ACA subsidies and Medicaid now!! The looming expiration of Affordable Care Act subsidies, passed last year as part of the American Rescue Plan, leaves 13 million Americans on the verge of skyrocketing health care premiums at the end of this year―with 3 million likely to lose coverage altogether. And failure to cover 2 million poor adults through Medicaid means that racial disparities will continue and widen, perpetuating disproportionate maternal deaths among Black and poor women. If Congress does not act by September 30th―and by all indications, they are not close―millions of households will receive letters just weeks before the midterm election that they will either need to pay more out of pocket or lose their health coverage. In order to pass the Senate with just 50 votes, Democrats will need to wrangle Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), who appears to be avoiding the ACA discussion altogether. When asked last month if he’d support extending ACA subsidies, Manchin said, “There’s a lot of ifs there. That has not been discussed at all. Any discussions I’ve been involved with, it has not been discussed, no.” While Majority Leader Schumer’s office disputes that claim, stating that Manchin has asked that ACA subsidies “not be discussed before other core issues are settled,” it underscores the urgency of our work right now. With only three months to come up with an agreement, Affordable Care Act subsidies and Medicaid coverage must be discussed―and improvements enacted! The reality is that while Manchin wants to focus more on paying down the debt than investments in children, families and working people, there is plenty of revenue to do both. In last year’s House-passed investment package, prescription drug reform raised $297 billion. The millionaires surcharge, which will only impact the richest 0.02% of taxpayers, will raise $228 billion. And, a 15% Corporate Profits Minimum Tax, to stop wealthy corporations from avoiding what they owe in taxes, would raise $320 billion on domestic profits and another $310 billion on foreign profits. The House-passed plan, combined, raised more than $2.2 trillion in new revenue! Again, there’s plenty of revenue to invest in critical programs for working and low-income people, and pay down our national debt. Joe Manchin and Congress just need the political will to do it. Click “START WRITING” to send a message to your senators and representative right now and tell them to extend ACA subsidies and close the Medicaid coverage gap in the investment and tax package being negotiated between House and Senate leadership and President Biden right now.",
	"url": "https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-extend-aca-subsidies-and-medicaid-now"
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