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Category Archives: Therapies and Health Care
ACTION ALERT: ACA Repeal is Back – We Need YOU!
ACA repeal is back, and it’s just as bad as ever. Health care and Medicaid for people with disabilities are being threatened once again in order to pay for a tax cut for the wealthiest Americans. Congress is using the current Senate tax bill to try to repeal the...
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Tagged aca, aca repeal, action, action alert, action alerts, affordable care act, Congress, health care, healthcare, obamacare, repeal, script, senate
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ASAN Condemns New Attacks On The ACA
The Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) condemns the multiple new attacks on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) from the Trump administration in the past 24 hours. These attacks undermine our health care system, will raise costs for everyone, and threaten the lives of people with disabilities. ASAN calls on...
Posted in News, Policy, Press, Statement, Therapies and Health Care
Tagged Congress, eo, executive order, health care, healthcare, Medicaid, statement, xo
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8 DAYS to save our health care
The threat of ACA repeal is back, and it is worse than ever. Congress is set to vote on Graham-Cassidy, a bill that would raise premiums for most families, allow insurance to discriminate based on pre-existing conditions, and make devastating cuts to Medicaid. Congress is serious about trying to...
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ACA repeal is back – and so are we
The Senate is at it again, trying to rush through disastrous legislation to take our health care away. The Graham-Cassidy bill introduced this week will have the same devastating effects as the repeal bills we’ve been beating back all year. It will slash Medicaid funding, leave millions without health...
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ACTION ALERT: Almost There On Health Care!
Dear friends, The Senate thought that this was the week they could repeal the Affordable Care Act and destroy Medicaid, but your persistence made them think twice. Last night, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced that they didn’t have the votes–but there’s a catch. Now, in a last desperate...
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ACTION ALERT: Tell the Senate: It’s time to scrap this bill
We’ve won another week. The Senate thought that this was the week they could repeal the Affordable Care Act and destroy Medicaid, but your persistence made them think twice. Now they’re not sure they have the votes they need – but neither does our side. We need more Senators...
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ACTION ALERT: Here’s what YOU can do to stop the ACA repeal
Now is the time to act. Last week, ASAN stood with disabled protesters who staged a die-in in the nation’s capital, underscoring the message that if the Senate’s ACA repeal bill is passed, people will die as a direct result. If this bill passes, hundreds of billions of dollars...
Posted in Action, Self Advocacy and Representation, Therapies and Health Care
Tagged aac, action, action alert, action alerts, legislation, Medicaid, phone bank, senate, virtual phone bank
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