Please Help

I didn't know what to call this. But I am asking for your help.

The congress is working on repealing the Affordable Care Act, and I'm wrecked. The ACA allows me to be able to have insurance, not just because I am being treated for leukemia, a pre-existing condition. The drug I take that keep me in remission costs $14,346.49 per month. I've been on this drug and a another one like this since February 2002, and if you do the math, I hit my lifetime limit sometime in 2013.

I'd have to bankrupt my family to get onto medicaid, and I refuse to do that. If that'll even be an option by the time the GOP controlled congress is done.

So I have three asks.

1. Call your senators and representative. Here's where you find your representative and their contact information. Here is where you find your senators and their contact information. Tell them a story of yourself or someone you know who will be impacted by overturning the ACA. Even my story. You could say that you have a friend who will have to bankrupt her family in order to live if the ACA goes away.

Here's a script:

Hi my name is ___ and I live in____ I am a constituent of Congressman ______ or Senator _______.
I am VERY concerned about plans to repeal the Affordable Care Act and cut medicaid. These plans would mean many hundreds of thousands of people would lose their health care and over millions of Americans have pre-existing conditions. It is unacceptable to play politics with something as important as healthcare. (If you are talking to someone ask if the congressman supports repealing without having a replacement for the ACA and whether he will cut medicaid).
I/my family member/someone I love will be impacted (Share the story).

If you live in Minnesota, it's estimated 374,000 people will lose their health care, and 744,000 people have pre-existing conditions that would disqualify them from having health insurance.

2. Ask your friends to make the calls. Ask them in person. Call them to ask them. Email them. Share this post on social media.

3. There are five GOP senators who are on the fence about repealing the ACA. Please also call them, and ask your friends to call them.

Here are the 5 Senators we must call today.

Please call for the women, mothers, children, the veterans, the sick, those living in rural areas...

Senator Bob Corker - (202) 224-3344
Senator Lisa Murkowski - (202) 224-6665
Senator Rob Portman - (202) 224-3353
Senator Susan Collins - (202) 224-2523
Senator Bill Cassidy - (202) 224-5824

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.