Some coverage on MSNBC and Washington Post on this action....
Right now, members of the national disability rights organization ADAPT are
staging a die-in at Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell’s office. The
activists
are protesting McConnell’s health care bill, demanding he bring an end to the
attacks on disabled people’s freedom.
The Medicaid caps proposed in this bill and the resulting cuts can only lead to
two outcomes for the disability community: people being forced into nursing
facilities and other institutions, and people dying because they cannot get the
services they need. The fact that this terrible bill is being released
on the 18th anniversary of the Olmstead decision is an even further affront to
the disability community!
Millions of disabled Americans will be harmed if this terrible law is enacted.
McConnell seems intent on pushing the legislation through regardless of the
cost to our community, so we need your help to fight it! We have fought too
hard for our freedom to do nothing as the Majority leader and his cronies plot
to take it away from us.
You can join the fight by doing the following:
- Call your local press and urge them to cover this story! Tell them about the
ADAPT action, but more importantly tell them why Medicaid and healthcare
are so important to you. Get them to report on all of the ways this bill will
restrict our freedom and limit our lives. ADAPT has put out a press release
that can be found here
(http://adapt.org/2017-june-22nd-press-release-disability-advocates-protest-senate-leader-over-cuts-to-medicaid-for-elderly-and-disabled-americans/).
Please feel free to use and share it as a template!
- Call Senator McConnell’s office and demand he not advance any legislation
that caps or cuts Medicaid! The phone number for his DC office is: (202)
224-2541
Fax: (202) 224-2499
- Call your Senators and demand they not vote for any legislation that caps or
cuts Medicaid! You can contact them through the Capitol Switchboard here:
(202) 224-3121
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