Trumpcare is like national coming out day for friends with serious illnesses. So many people would be harmed by this bill that it seems like everywhere you look, there’s someone with a story. If you’re like me, you can’t glance at Facebook without being hit in the face by that reality.
On Monday, Joel Silberman—a media and communications trainer and strategist for so many people in the progressive movement—came out with a video and article about his recent pancreatic cancer diagnosis. He writes that marriage equality saved his life—is saving it right now, really—because:
… had it not been for marriage equality, I wouldn't have had a secondary insurance policy and our retirement could have easily been wiped out over the next nine months of cancer treatment. And that really upset me. Not over my retirement, but for all of those who are not as fortunate as I am to have the kind of coverage that I have.
The fight for marriage equality ensured that I would have access to my husband's health care plan; now we must fight to ensure that everyone has coverage, regardless of their marital status.
That was Monday. Then Tuesday was like “yo, ‘hold my beer’ is kind of tired and anyway, we’re talking about health care, so how about holding my chemo pump?” As soon as I woke up and checked out Facebook, I found that a former coworker has multiple sclerosis, and before the day was over, a good friend who has stage 4 Hodgkin’s lymphoma would write powerfully about her situation.
Senate Republicans are still talking Trumpcare, and plan to bring it back after July 4th recess. We absolutely MUST make sure they don’t have the votes. Keep calling your Republican senators at (202) 224-3121. Tell them “NO DEAL” on Trumpcare. Then, tell us how it went.
from Daily Kos http://ift.tt/2sycIs3
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