Thursday, May 15 - Defend Medicaid / Healthcare Call TONIGHT / Medicaid Phone Bank 5/18
Partner Action: Defend Medicaid from Budget Reconciliation Cuts
A Congressional Budget Office analysis warns that Republican proposals to cut Medicaid funding to finance billionaire tax breaks would cause millions to lose health coverage. The GOP is pushing a budget reconciliation bill to fund tax cuts for the wealthy, which would require significant Medicaid reductions.
Medicaid covers 72 million low-income and disabled Americans and is jointly funded by federal and state governments, with the federal share higher in poorer states. Republicans are considering cutting federal funding for Medicaid expansion and imposing work requirements. If enacted, over 34,000 deaths annually could result, and millions would lose access to vital health care.
👉 Members of Congress must oppose these harmful cuts before the bill advances.
Contact Senator Durbin at 312-353-4952 or at other numbers listed here
Contact Senator Duckworth at 312-886-3506 or at other numbers listed here
Script: Hello, my name is [NAME] and I’m a constituent from [CITY, ZIP]. I’m calling to urge [REP/SEN NAME] to oppose any budget reconciliation bill that cuts Medicaid, reduces Medicaid expansion, or imposes Medicaid work requirements. Medicaid is a lifeline for millions of Americans and rural health systems. Reducing its federal budget would cut off millions of people from needed health care and destroy lives and local economies.
Action via 5Calls
Partner Action: Mass Call: Hands Off Our Health Care TONIGHT
Trump and Republicans in Congress want to cut taxes for billionaires and big corporations—and pay for it by gutting Medicaid.
But they're already feeling the heat from their constituents and afraid to show their faces in district. That’s why we need to keep the pressure on.
👉 Join our mass call TONIGHT at 7 PM CT to find out how we can dial up the pressure and stop them from taking away our health care.
Action via Working Families Power
Partner Action: Protect Medicaid Phone Bank 5/18
Join Indivisible Illinois to help us call voters in the 3 Republican congressional districts in Illinois to let them know that their GOP congressperson is planning to make deep cuts to Medicaid, and what that would mean for them and their communities.
These congresspeople are: Mike Bost (IL-12), Mary Miller (IL-15) and Darin LaHood (IL-16). You do not have to be an Illinoisan to participate.
👉 Join the phone bank on Sunday, May 18 at 4 p.m.
Action via Indivisible Illinois
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