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"We need to make sure Democrats stand strong," says Hall, "and that Republicans know they will pay dearly for any future political actions that put our health care at risk." (Photo: Erik McGregor/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Yes, it was the months of tireless effort by opponents of the Trump-Republican health care repeal effort that set the stage for the legislative defeat that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was forced to acknowledge Monday night.
Yes, it was the months of tireless effort by opponents of the Trump-Republican health care repeal effort that set the stage for the legislative defeat that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was forced to acknowledge Monday night.
Our sustained grassroots pressure derailed legislation that would have dismantled Medicaid, hiked our premiums and deductibles, and hurt people with pre-existing conditions - all while giving a $600 billion tax break to drug corporations, insurance companies and the ultra-rich. It also quashed a "plan B" by Republican leaders and the Trump administration to move an outright repeal of the Affordable Care Act without a replacement in hand, in a gambit to get Democrats to embrace some form of "compromise."
Since January, dozens of organizations representing millions of Americans have fought relentlessly to defeat this repeal-and-replace scheme. In all, People's Action member groups, working in partnership with the Health Care for America Now coalition, pulled off hundreds of protest actions and town halls - including 100 in June alone. We generated tens of thousands of calls to Congress and engaged thousands of our members in sharing their personal health care stories - making what was at stake for our families and lives hard to ignore.
We've won another important battle, but this fight is far from over.
Republican leaders are right now working to gut Medicaid through the budget process now underway. And President Trump is renewing his threats to "let Obamacare fail," with all of the consequences that would have for people needing health care and affordable coverage.
We need to make sure Democrats stand strong, and that Republicans know they will pay dearly for any future political actions that put our health care at risk.
Here's what we must do in the weeks ahead:
Our lives were on the line, so we put our bodies in the streets - and stopped a political bulldozer. We're going to have to keep up that winning pressure until health care is a public good available and affordable for every person in our country.
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Yes, it was the months of tireless effort by opponents of the Trump-Republican health care repeal effort that set the stage for the legislative defeat that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was forced to acknowledge Monday night.
Our sustained grassroots pressure derailed legislation that would have dismantled Medicaid, hiked our premiums and deductibles, and hurt people with pre-existing conditions - all while giving a $600 billion tax break to drug corporations, insurance companies and the ultra-rich. It also quashed a "plan B" by Republican leaders and the Trump administration to move an outright repeal of the Affordable Care Act without a replacement in hand, in a gambit to get Democrats to embrace some form of "compromise."
Since January, dozens of organizations representing millions of Americans have fought relentlessly to defeat this repeal-and-replace scheme. In all, People's Action member groups, working in partnership with the Health Care for America Now coalition, pulled off hundreds of protest actions and town halls - including 100 in June alone. We generated tens of thousands of calls to Congress and engaged thousands of our members in sharing their personal health care stories - making what was at stake for our families and lives hard to ignore.
We've won another important battle, but this fight is far from over.
Republican leaders are right now working to gut Medicaid through the budget process now underway. And President Trump is renewing his threats to "let Obamacare fail," with all of the consequences that would have for people needing health care and affordable coverage.
We need to make sure Democrats stand strong, and that Republicans know they will pay dearly for any future political actions that put our health care at risk.
Here's what we must do in the weeks ahead:
Our lives were on the line, so we put our bodies in the streets - and stopped a political bulldozer. We're going to have to keep up that winning pressure until health care is a public good available and affordable for every person in our country.
Yes, it was the months of tireless effort by opponents of the Trump-Republican health care repeal effort that set the stage for the legislative defeat that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was forced to acknowledge Monday night.
Our sustained grassroots pressure derailed legislation that would have dismantled Medicaid, hiked our premiums and deductibles, and hurt people with pre-existing conditions - all while giving a $600 billion tax break to drug corporations, insurance companies and the ultra-rich. It also quashed a "plan B" by Republican leaders and the Trump administration to move an outright repeal of the Affordable Care Act without a replacement in hand, in a gambit to get Democrats to embrace some form of "compromise."
Since January, dozens of organizations representing millions of Americans have fought relentlessly to defeat this repeal-and-replace scheme. In all, People's Action member groups, working in partnership with the Health Care for America Now coalition, pulled off hundreds of protest actions and town halls - including 100 in June alone. We generated tens of thousands of calls to Congress and engaged thousands of our members in sharing their personal health care stories - making what was at stake for our families and lives hard to ignore.
We've won another important battle, but this fight is far from over.
Republican leaders are right now working to gut Medicaid through the budget process now underway. And President Trump is renewing his threats to "let Obamacare fail," with all of the consequences that would have for people needing health care and affordable coverage.
We need to make sure Democrats stand strong, and that Republicans know they will pay dearly for any future political actions that put our health care at risk.
Here's what we must do in the weeks ahead:
Our lives were on the line, so we put our bodies in the streets - and stopped a political bulldozer. We're going to have to keep up that winning pressure until health care is a public good available and affordable for every person in our country.