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RSVP now for Sunday’s rally in Seattle to save health care
SEATTLE — If we don’t act now, 30 million Americans could lose their insurance entirely and millions more will face less affordable and less accessible health care.
Republican leaders are barreling full speed ahead with their reckless, destructive plan to shred the Affordable Care Act, demolish individual insurance markets and throw our health care system into chaos. And that “replacement” plan they’ve promised? The details are foggy, but you can bet it includes ending Medicare and Medicaid as we know them while handing the wealthy few a huge tax break.
We can’t let Congress pull the rug out from under working families. Hundreds of people will be taking action this Sunday, Jan. 15 in Seattle to tell members of Congress to oppose these dangerous attacks on our health care — and the Washington State Labor Council, AFL-CIO urges all union members and community supporters to be there.
Republican legislators may not be ready to reveal their 2017 replacement plan for the Affordable Care Act to the public, but Republican leaders like House Speaker Paul Ryan have made clear the harm they intend to do to all of the health benefits relied on by working people and retirees, not just those covered by the ACA.
Their proposals embody a cut-and-run approach that targets the ACA, Medicare and Medicaid benefits and endangers our workplace health benefits. If Republican legislators succeed, they would effectively end Medicare and Medicaid as we know them and hurt working people and retirees with lost coverage and denial of the care they need.
The good news is that some Republican legislators in the Senate are showing signs of wavering on their support of this destructive plan. But we can’t let up.
RSVP now to join working people in Seattle on Sunday to stop extreme Republican leaders in Congress from taking away health care for millions of people.