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Second Line to Protect Our Care

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Saturday, March 18, 2017 1:00 PM New Orleans City Hall

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Please join <a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=1650620035244524&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A755020278005042%7D" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" href="https://www.facebook.com/keepLAcovered/" style="color: rgb(54, 88, 153); cursor: pointer; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Keep Louisiana Covered</a> and <a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=1510590369239987&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A755020278005042%7D" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" href="https://www.facebook.com/SoulBrassBandNola/" style="color: rgb(54, 88, 153); cursor: pointer; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Soul Brass Band</a> for a second line in support for affordable, quality health care coverage in Louisiana! 
 
*Congress is trying to eliminate Medicaid expansion, cut benefits for people on Medicaid, and decrease subsidies that help people pay for their health insurance* 
 
This would affect the 400,000 people who have gained health insurance through Medicaid expansion, and over 1 million low-income Louisianans who rely on Medicaid. 
 
We are responding by having speakers, musicians, and residents come together to show our legislators (<a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=80987211775&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A755020278005042%7D" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" href="https://www.facebook.com/billcassidy/" style="color: rgb(54, 88, 153); cursor: pointer; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Bill Cassidy</a> <a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=160513344045084&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A755020278005042%7D" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" href="https://www.facebook.com/JohnKennedyLouisiana/" style="color: rgb(54, 88, 153); cursor: pointer; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">John Neely Kennedy</a> and<a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=50936151681&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A755020278005042%7D" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" href="https://www.facebook.com/RepSteveScalise/" style="color: rgb(54, 88, 153); cursor: pointer; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Congressman Steve Scalise</a>) that we will not accept these harmful changes. Then we will second line with <a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=1510590369239987&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A755020278005042%7D" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" href="https://www.facebook.com/SoulBrassBandNola/" style="color: rgb(54, 88, 153); cursor: pointer; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Soul Brass Band</a> to Saint Louis cemetery #2, to send a powerful message about the real hurt that these changes will have on our community.  
 
Keep Medicaid Expansion Rolling – Take it to the Streets to Protect Our Care! 
 
 
<a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/protectourcare" style="color: rgb(54, 88, 153); cursor: pointer; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">#ProtectOurCare</a>  
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Mon, 03/13/2017 - 20:00

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Affordable Care Act Memorial

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Saturday, January 28 12:30 AM in Lafayette Cemetery No. 1

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PROTEST PLANNED ON  REPEAL OF THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT
Community Protest Will Highlight Human Costs of ACA Repeal
January 28, 2017  -  10:30 - 11:30 am   
Request Submitted for use of Lafayette Cemetery #1 (1400 Washington Ave.)
 
NEW ORLEANS, LA - One of New Orleans' most beautiful cemeteries will be the location of a press conference Saturday morning, January 28, that will feature testimonies from Louisianans who have received life-saving health care through the ACA. 
 
The Rev. Fred Kammer, SJ, a Jesuit priest and Executive Director of the Jesuit Social Research Institute at Loyola University New Orleans, will emcee the event. "We priests officiate at many funerals. No death is sadder than an unnecessary one. I fear many will die unnecessary deaths if the ACA is repealed without a carefully thought-through replacement that assures the same breadth and depth of health coverage as the ACA does," said Fr. Kammer. 
 
Republicans have already set in motion a plan to repeal significant portions of President Obama’s healthcare plan first, while delaying passage of a replacement plan - potentially for up to three years. Over half a million Louisianans are expected to <a href="http://www.cbpp.org/sites/default/files/atoms/files/12-7-16health-factsheets-la.pdf" target="_blank" title="This external link will open in a new window">lose health insurance coverage</a> if the ACA is repealed.
 
“In 2009, at the age of 27, I had major surgery while uninsured, with a cost that ran about $25,000,” said Jacquelyn Brubaker, who will speak at the upcoming event. “Not long after, I was diagnosed with Melanoma, while still uninsured. I am still paying off that bill, but through the ACA, I now have insurance for the first time in my adult life.”
 
4.3 million people across the country are expected to lose health coverage immediately, even if the repeal is delayed, because of uncertainty and disruptions in the health system. Studies predict that those hardest hit by the repeal will be <a href="http://www.urban.org/research/publication/implications-partial-repeal-aca-through-reconciliation" target="_blank" title="This external link will open in a new window">working families </a>with low and moderate incomes.
 
“My husband is a musician and renovator who has been self-employed his whole life, and has never been able to afford insurance,” said Laurie Devecca, another speaker for Saturday’s event.  “Before the ACA, he relied on the Musician's Clinic and Charity Hospital (LSU after the storm). In Nov 2015 he had a hernia operation that cost $19,000, but thanks to his insurance he only had to pay around $500. He has also needed, and received, multiple spinal injections for degenerative discs. I don't know how he could have had these procedures done without the ACA.”
 
Amongst the backdrop of one of New Orleans’ oldest cemeteries, the January 28th protest is intended to illustrate for our representatives in Congress the real, human costs to repealing the ACA.
 
The event is sponsored by the Jesuit Social Research Institute at Loyola University, the Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy, and the Progressive Social Network of Greater New Orleans.
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Mon, 01/23/2017 - 19:00

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ACTION ALERT: LOUISIANA

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Take Action to #ProtectOurCare: Call LA Senators Today!

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Right now, Congressional Republicans are discussing a repeal of the Affordable Care Act without an adequate replacement. If they move forward they will be jeopardizing coverge for hundreds of thousands of Louisianans and putting our state's financial future on shaky ground. We simply CANNOT afford a repeal of the ACA without knowing what will replace it.
Please take a minute to call Senator Bill Cassidy and Senator John Kennedy today to tell them why affordable health insurance is important to your and our state, and urge them not to repeal the ACA without an immediate replacement. 
 
Senator Cassidy's Office: (202) 224-5824 
Senatory Kennedy's Office: (202) 224-4623 
 
We encourage you to insert a personal story of you or someone you know who has been helped by the ACA. Or, use some of these talking points:
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Repealing the ACA without an immediate replacement means that 570,000 Louisianans would be left uninsured! 
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More than 200,000 Louisianans have purchased insurance plans on the federal marketplace and and receive income-based financial assistance to make their healthcare plans affordable
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More than 370,000 low-income Louisianans recently gained access to affordable health care after the Governor expanded Medicaid this year.
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Repealing the ACA would be a disaster for Louisiana's already dire budget situation.
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The state stands to lose $26.7 billion in federal funding over the next 10 years with ACA repeal, not to mention rising costs of uncompensated care for the uninsured. 
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We would lose an estimated 37,000 health care jobs in our state and $39.1 billion in business output with repeal of Medicaid expansion alone.
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Finally, after you've called, please email us at JSRI@loyno.edu to let us know what you heard!

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Thu, 01/12/2017 - 19:00

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ACTION ALERT

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Your Voice is Needed to Protect Economic Security for All!

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As you know, we are going to have to fight to protect the critical programs that promote economic security for all and provide services to the least among us: the Affordable Care Act, Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, CHIP, public housing, SNAP, and aid for people with disabilities are all in jeopardy under the new President and Congress.
We need your signature.
Sign a letter to the new President and Congress. 
The <a href="https://www.votervoice.net/BroadcastLinks/2R1tVOJAbA09qaUbpRs5jQ" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; color: rgb(84, 1, 21);" target="_blank" title="This external link will open in a new window">Coalition on Human Needs</a> is collecting signatures from thousands of organizations and individuals to stand together against dismantling the services and protections people need and for proven investments to extend opportunity and economic security to all.  
 
Please read it – we believe you or your organization will want to <a href="https://www.votervoice.net/BroadcastLinks/qpCyT5Q8eGVlx-m2Xqsxeg" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; color: rgb(84, 1, 21);" target="_blank" title="This external link will open in a new window">sign</a>, and we need you, both to sign and to circulate to those in your networks. 
When so much is at stake, why does a letter matter?  It says to the Senators needed to block the passage of destructive bills that groups in their states are among thousands nationwide ready to take a stand and take action.  
The letter incorporates principles under the theme Strengthening America’s Values and Economy (SAVE) for All.  It affirms these principles - consistent with Catholic Social Teaching - that federal priorities must (1) protect and assist low-income and vulnerable people; (2) invest in broadly shared economic growth and jobs; (3) increase revenues from fair sources; and (4) seek savings from reducing waste in the Pentagon and elsewhere.  
 
It’s never been more important to come together.  The SAVE for All letter is a vehicle to do that – please join in making your voice heard!
 ***Please forward this to your networks, partners, and other interested parties.***
The deadline for this <a href="https://www.votervoice.net/BroadcastLinks/0JShZb4n4BBv8yfv4Q3MEA" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; color: rgb(84, 1, 21);" target="_blank" title="This external link will open in a new window">sign-on letter</a> is January 5th, 2017.

Date

Mon, 12/05/2016 - 19:00

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ACTION ALERT

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Urge Your Senator to Support Criminal Justice Reform

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Thu, 01/28/2016 - 19:00

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JSRI's Ali Bustamante illustrates White House's findings on Medicaid Expansion in 2016

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From the 06/05/15 White House Study, Gulf South states would benefit the most from Medicaid Expansion in 2016.

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Thu, 06/04/2015 - 20:00

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Fr. Kammer testifies in support of HB 70

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"This bill would raise the state percentage of the Federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) from 3.5%---the lowest in the nation--- to 7%. The national average for state EITC is 16% of the Federal EITC."

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Mon, 05/25/2015 - 20:00

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Dr. Mikulich urges Congressman Cedric Richmond to support strengthening the CFPB's initial payday ruling

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"I urge you to sign on to Congressman Terrell F. Waters letter to the Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Mr. Richard Cordray to strengthen the CFPB’s payday lending rule."

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Thu, 06/04/2015 - 20:00

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Dr. Mikulich Urges Louisiana Judiciary Committee to Support SB241

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"I am writing to urge you to take a significant step to address our state’s fiscal crisis and reducing over-incarceration."

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Date

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 20:00

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Louisiana EITC Fact Sheet Available

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Louisiana’s EITC: Investing in Our Families and Our Economy

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Wed, 04/29/2015 - 20:00

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