Tweeting The Senate TrumpCare Bill

If this bill passes, people will die preventable deaths as a direct consequence. For tax cuts. It's essentially an act of cannibalism.

— Ned Resnikoff (@resnikoff) June 22, 2017

Instead of making premiums more affordable, the Senate repeal bill will jack up costs for the avg 60 year old making $42k by $5,151/year.

— Lori Lodes (@loril) June 22, 2017

Senate premium subsidies follow a similar structure as the ACA, but cut off subsidies at 350% of poverty. That hits older people hardest.

— Larry Levitt (@larry_levitt) June 22, 2017

Senate bill moves $$$ around in a shell game meant to "soften" vote for tax cuts for rich + deep cuts to poor:https://t.co/5eWQjmXEuM pic.twitter.com/hXzaiQYmYe

— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) June 22, 2017

Resist:

Protestors dragged away from Sen. McConnell's office while chanting "no cuts to Medicaid"  after Senate GOP reveals health care bill draft. pic.twitter.com/2cqtaElq0p

— ABC News (@ABC) June 22, 2017

The video prompted even Mrs. Alan Greenspan to say it was "a brutal image for Republicans and supporters of this bill."

Don't Let Them Get Away With It (UPDATED)

Today is the day the draft TrumpCare bill that 13 white male Senate Republicans have been crafting in secret, without hearings or expert counsel, will be revealed.  It will be the first time the public, as well as their Republican and Democratic colleagues, will see the tax- cut- for- the- rich- disguised- as- health- insurance- reform bill. The draft purportedly mirrors much of what's in the "mean" (quoting D.J. Trump) bill passed by the Republican sociopaths in the House in May, with fillips like an extended timeframe for the Medicaid expansion phase out to appease spineless Republicans like Sens. Susan Collins, Bill Cassidy and Dean Heller. We're confident that the bottom line, which will be confirmed once the Congressional Budget Office does its analysis, will be higher premiums and loss of coverage for millions, all to provide tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans. In other words the perfect dystopian Republican "solution."

Meanwhile, we certainly hope you've had a chance to voice your opinion to your Senator (especially if he or she is a Republican).  It's never too late to make a difference.

The TrumpCare tool kit developed by the Center for American Progress makes it as quick and easy as possible. Now, there is anecdotal evidence that the anti- TrumpCare calls/ emails/ etc., are starting to build:

I was waiting in a GOP Senator's office today and the front desk phones were ringing nonstop with angry health care calls

— Michael Crowley (@michaelcrowley) June 21, 2017

The next 10 days will be critical.  They think they can get away with passing this monstrosity before people catch on to the damage it will inflict. We need to do everything we can to make sure that doesn't happen.

Make them own this.

UPDATE:  You can read the "discussion draft" bill, embedded here.

Stephen Colbert On The Senate Republicans' TrumpCare Bill

Here's Stephen Colbert's take on Senate Republicans' "frantic scramble" to pass their TrumpCare bill before July 4:

Let Them Know You Want To Save The Affordable Care Act

If you're reading this post and especially if you live in a state with one or more Republican U.S. Senators, please call or email now to let them know you're on to what their repeal of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) would do to America:

Senate Republicans began to coalesce around the framework of a plan to repeal and replace the law last week. Their plan would, like the bill the House passed in May, almost certainly cause millions of low-income Americans to lose coverage by ending the Medicaid expansion. It would help the young and healthy at the expense of the older and the sick. 

Meanwhile, across the nation, health insurance plans are beginning to flee the Obamacare marketplace. They’ve cited the uncertainty around the health care law’s future, sown by congressional Republicans and the Trump administration. The number of counties with zero health plans signed up to sell 2018 coverage keeps growing. 

The possibility that Republicans will repeal Obamacare or drive it into collapse is an increasingly real one. That’s a reality where millions fewer have health insurance and lower-income Americans struggle to afford coverage. (our emphasis)

Particularly, if you're in Alaska (Sen. Murkowski), Maine (Sen. Collins), Nevada (Sen. Heller) or Louisiana (Sen. Cassidy), your call/ message could make a difference. As of today, there's been so much oxygen taken up by the Russiagate that Senate Republicans have been flying under the radar in crafting their noxious bill (how could 13 white men operating without hearings or expert testimony possibly go wrong?). Let them know when you vote, you'll be looking at the stand they took on affordable health care.

Here are the contact numbers and email addresses for both Democratic and Republican Senators. Ask your friends to take action, too. Please do your part, because lives are at stake here.

BONUS: Senate Rethuglicans know this is a toxic bill to millions of Americans, so they won't release it to the public. Said one Rethug Senate aide, "We're not stupid." But evil? Yes.