“We need leaders who will build on the progress we’ve made with the ACA and make healthcare more available and affordable, not less. We need leaders who will protect our Medicare and Social Security.” #ProtectOurCare https://t.co/U0fUpE6Ypf
“@RepRodBlum voted to let insurers put annual and lifetime dollar limits on our care — as if needs stop when a corporation says you’ve cost them enough...he voted to gut Medicaid, which covers nursing home care for so many of our parents and grandparents.” https://t.co/U0fUpE6Ypf
“@RepRodBlum voted to let insurance corporations charge people more for having a health condition. He voted to let insurance corporations to cut important health care services from our policies.” #ProtectOurCare https://t.co/U0fUpE6Ypf
“Before the Affordable Care Act passed, I couldn’t get health coverage for my employees. We were priced out of the market because of our health conditions.” #ProtectOurCare https://t.co/U0fUpE6Ypf
“[@RepRodBlum] swears he stands up for people with pre-existing conditions. He wants us to forget his voting record. I can’t forget. Too much is at stake.” #ProtectOurCare https://t.co/U0fUpE6Ypf
“My U.S. House Representative, @RepRodBlum, along with his Iowa colleagues @RepDavidYoung and @SteveKingIA, has repeatedly voted to take away health care from me, my brother, my employees, and many other Iowans.” #ProtectOurCare https://t.co/U0fUpE6Ypf
“So far, states have really only used [the waivers] to set up reinsurance programs & stabilize their markets. But they now have much more flexibility if they want to be more ambitious in [rolling] back Obamacare within their own borders.” #ProtectOurCare https://t.co/6iAhoIkBt8
“...the Trump administration is doing everything in its power to make it easier for states to set up an alternative insurance market that does not have to meet the preexisting conditions rules under Obamacare.” #ProtectOurCare https://t.co/6iAhoIkBt8
“Add all these facts together, and Republicans’ claim that they support protecting preexisting conditions just as fiercely as Democrats borders on ridiculous.” #ProtectOurCare https://t.co/Utd4fysI78
“GOP officials across the country and in the Trump admin are trying to reverse the preexisting conditions rules. Trump’s health department is using its regulatory power to promote insurance that doesn’t have to meet Obamacare’s standards.” #ProtectOurCare https://t.co/Utd4fysI78
“The Affordable Care Act effectively ended discrimination against people with preexisting conditions...No federal law had ever codified such a universal guarantee of health insurance for all Americans.” #ProtectOurCare https://t.co/Utd4fysI78
“...lawmakers seem to finally recognize that Americans want a guarantee of coverage. The trouble is, they don’t seem to be listening.” #ProtectOurCare https://t.co/5k1bx7kRa4
“For those of us with imperfect health, survival now seems to require throwing ourselves at the feet of elected officials, pleading to be treated with compassion...we have found very little benevolence from those in charge.” #ProtectOurCare https://t.co/5k1bx7kRa4
“Americans have learned that in order to survive in the Trump era, we must rip ourselves open, eviscerating our pride and revealing our secrets, telling these stories to beg for mercy.” #ProtectOurCare https://t.co/5k1bx7kRa4
“Since the #ACA was signed into law eight years ago, [the GOP] has worked overtime to sabotage & destroy it, the law that by all objective measures took America a step closer to making healthcare a right rather than a privilege.” #ProtectOurCare https://t.co/5k1bx7kRa4
“[The GOP] appears to have decided that ignoring questions and obscuring plans is the way to win this election...it leaves those of us dependent on the right to buy healthcare balancing blind on the edge of cliff.” #ProtectOurCare https://t.co/5k1bx7kRa4
“We were also more broke before we had the right to buy health insurance. In the years since Americans gained a foothold in healthcare, personal bankruptcies dropped by half.” #ProtectOurCare https://t.co/5k1bx7kRa4