“I receive a government subsidy for my Marketplace (Affordable Care Act) insurance. I could not afford any insurance without it. I am stretched very thin financially as I have all the regular bills a person has. I barely make my mortgage, pay the gas, electric, and water bills along with my health insurance.”
- G in Chicago, IL

Quick signature: Tell Congress to protect our health care! Say no cuts to the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid! 

What’s happening? Tens of millions of us rely on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) for quality, affordable health care coverage through Healthcare.gov. But the Republican spending bill currently being considered by Congress will hike premiums for millions of middle-class families by up to 90%, increase cost sharing for privately insured people by $900 per family, end Medicaid expansion as we know it, and codify Trump’s sabotage of Marketplace coverage, leaving millions without life-saving health care coverage. This is not ok!

Right now, the U.S. Senate is working on this spending bill that will rip health coverage away from 16 million middle- and low-income Americans by slashing hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars from our health care. These deep cuts are literally life-and-death, ripping coverage away from seniors, children, people with disabilities, new parents, and hard-working families. A recent study showed that these cuts will lead to over 51,000 preventable deaths PER YEAR! In addition, the bill will worsen the availability and quality of health care coverage for ALL OF US by putting 338 rural hospitals at risk of closing and allowing insurance companies to hike up deductibles and other cost-sharing and removing regulations, including people with employer-based coverage. 

Sign on! Tell Congress that the proposed cuts to our health care are unacceptable!

While the budget and tax bill slashes red tape for corporations and makes it easier for them to rip off families with junk plans, it also introduces miles of red tape for struggling Americans to get health insurance with mountains of paperwork and enrollment hurdles. In addition, the bill decimates the expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act by taking away critical financial incentives for states that expanded Medicaid and penalizing states that offer health care to immigrants out of their own budgets. To add an extra dose of cruelty, the bill punishes people who lose Medicaid coverage due to paperwork requirements by making them ineligible for Marketplace subsidies to buy their own coverage, thus locking them out of health coverage altogether! 

At a time when families are struggling to pay their bills, Republicans in Congress are looking to raise the cost of health care and slash funding for programs like the ACA and Medicaid, all to give MASSIVE tax breaks to billionaires and big corporations. Republicans are breaking the promises they made to the American people to lower costs for families, and we must tell them, NOT ON OUR WATCH!

Sign now! Tell Congress that we are watching, and we will not stand for them to cut our health care!

You'll sign on to our petition that reads:

Dear Congress,

The proposed cuts to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and Medicaid are unacceptable. Parents know all too well that having health care coverage is often a matter of life-and-death. In fact, a recent study showed that these cuts will lead to over 51,000 preventable deaths PER YEAR. Not on our watch!

Cutting people off of Marketplace coverage and Medicaid by slashing funding and increasing red tape is cruel. Moreover, the reconciliation bill will worsen the availability and quality of health care coverage for ALL OF US by putting 338 rural hospitals at risk of closing and allowing insurance companies to hike up deductibles and other cost-sharing and removing regulations—including for people with employer-based coverage.

We will not stand for you to cut vital health care programs, ripping health care coverage away from millions of families, and increasing health care costs for all of us, all while giving massive tax cuts to those who need them least.

We oppose the dismantling of the protections of the Affordable Care Act, decimation of Medicaid, and raising the cost of health care for everyone.

**Don’t forget to sign on! Tell your lawmakers to protect our health care!

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