[Peace] Mon Jun 26 at 6:30pm Community Meeting on Senate Health Bill / Champaign Public Library

Mon Jun 26 13:42:00 UTC 2017

*emergency Community Meeting about the proposed health care bill this
evening (June 26, 2017) at 6:30 p.m. at the Champaign Public Library.*
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Date: Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 8:01 AM
Subject: TONIGHT at 6:30 p.m. – Community Meeting on Senate Health Bill
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TONIGHT at 6:30 p.m.
Community Meeting
on Senate Health Bill
  Dear Karen,

The draft Senate health care bill came out last week, and it is
devastating. This afternoon, a CBO score is expected on a *revised* Senate
health care bill. *Please see below for information about our emergency
Community Meeting this evening at 6:30 p.m. at the Champaign Public
Library.*

*The Senate bill released last week would:*

   - Make drastic, devastating, and irreversible cuts to the 52-year old
   Medicaid program (this has nothing to do with “repealing and replacing” the
   Affordable Care Act). The cuts – almost a trillion dollars’ worth – would
   come in the form of turning Medicaid into a per capita cap program, and
   tying its growth to the general inflation rate rather than the
   faster-growing medical inflation rate, thereby strangling the program over
   many years;
   - Begin to phase out the Medicaid expansion in 2021 – in Illinois, as a
   result of our “trigger” law, this would mean that the *Medicaid
   expansion would end in 2021 in IL * since that is when the federal
   matching rate would drop below 90%;
   - Provide smaller subsidies for less generous health insurance plans
   with larger deductibles;
   - Allow states to opt out of ACA marketplaces and the Essential Health
   Benefits requirement thereby reducing the services insurance companies
   would have to cover (leaving consumers responsible for more of the costs of
   their care), and which would also mean that protections against annual and
   lifetime caps would go away;
   - Defund Planned Parenthood for one year; and
   - Give the extremely wealthy massive tax cuts, financed by the cuts to
   the Medicaid program.

The Senate’s bill does nothing to improve the problems with the ACA (for
example, high deductibles), *and* *it devastates the 52-year old Medicaid
program* which existed before the ACA. *More people will lose coverage
under the Senate bill (aka, “Trumpcare”) than gained it under the ACA,
while extremely wealthy individuals and corporations will get massive tax
cuts.*

We do not expect the *revised* Senate bill to make significant
improvements. But we will review the bill, and the CBO’s score, at
tonight’s meeting. We will also have information about how to take urgent
action to prevent the passage of this bill.

*Community Meeting on Senate Health Care Bill – Monday, June 26 at 6:30
p.m.*
We are organizing an emergency community meeting on the Senate’s health
care bill. The meeting is *tonight*. Please join us at this meeting to
learn more about the bill, the upcoming CBO score on the bill, and *what
you can do to help protect the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid!*

*WHAT:*            Community Meeting on Senate’s Health Care Bill

*WHEN:*            Monday, June 26, 2017 at 6:30 p.m.

*WHERE:*           Champaign Public Library, 200 W. Green Street, Champaign

*Refreshments will be served.  Free Parking.  Accessible.*

*Take Action!*
*Call your member of Congress at 1-866-877-3303 <%28866%29%20877-3303>* and
demand that they publicly oppose the House’s American Health Care Act and
the Senate’s Better Care Reconciliation Act.

*Call Gov. Rauner at 312-814-2121 <%28312%29%20814-2121>* and demand that
he publicly oppose the House’s American Health Care Act and the Senate’s
Better Care Reconciliation Act, which will cost Illinois billions of
dollars in Medicaid funding and thousands of jobs.

*New Health Care Fact Chat Video*
 We have a new Health Care Fact Chat video to tell you about what we know
so far. You can watch the video here:

https://youtu.be/cDRkU32az_g
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Thank you for your ongoing activism. We hope to see you at tonight’s
meeting!

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Sincerely,
Champaign County Health Care Consumers
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