An Open Letter to my Congresspeople

Friday, July 14, 2017

Dear Senators Bennet and Gardner, and Representative Buck,

I am writing to today to implore you to vote NO on the Republican Health Care plan. It is simply immoral to refuse medical care to almost 15 million Americans who can least afford to lose the help. 

Putting weasel words around it by having the Seema Verma point out that the states can use their "stabilization fund" to offset the cuts is a red herring. Cutting the funding is cutting the funding, and people will still lose their coverage when the money runs out. 

How can any member of Congress purport to be public servants out of one side of their mouth while simultaneously supporting this bill out of the other? It's bad for your constituents, and shows everyone - foreign and domestic - exactly what the American government values. Please note I said American government, and not the American people. Because this bill, and Americans' reaction to it, shows that this bill does not reflect the people's wishes.

You have a real opportunity here to give Republicans (and Congress specifically, for that matter) some credibility. Right now Republicans are considered the party that tears things down and leaves rubble in its wake. Republicans have a realty TV star in the White House, an unserious, incurious dolt who doesn't understand even the rudiments of governance and what it means to be a leader in a representative democracy. But you don't have to follow his lead. Instead, you can govern. How about acceding to the public's wishes for once, and craft a bi-partisan health care plan that EVERYONE can live with? THIS is what America wants, not some hack-job of a Bill where no one's voices are heard but a select few. 

Please - do the right thing. People's lives literally depend on it.


Signed,

Janiece


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