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Take Action to #ProtectOurCare: Call LA Senators Today!
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<p><u><strong>Right now,</strong></u><span>&nbsp;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&#39;s financial future on shaky ground.&nbsp;</span><u><strong>We simply CANNOT afford a repeal of the ACA without knowing what will replace it.</strong></u></p>
<p>Please take a minute to call&nbsp;Senator Bill Cassidy and Senator John Kennedy&nbsp;<strong><u>today</u></strong>&nbsp;to tell them&nbsp;why affordable health insurance is important to your and our state, and&nbsp;<u><strong>urge them&nbsp;not to repeal the ACA without an immediate replacement.</strong></u><br />
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<strong>Senator Cassidy&#39;s Office: (202) 224-5824<br />
Senatory Kennedy&#39;s Office: (202) 224-4623</strong><br />
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We encourage you to&nbsp;insert a personal story of you or someone you know who has been helped by the ACA. Or, use some of these talking points:</p>
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<p><strong>Repealing the ACA without an immediate replacement means that 570,000&nbsp;Louisianans would be left uninsured!&nbsp;</strong></p>
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<p>More than<strong>&nbsp;200,000 Louisianans</strong>&nbsp;have purchased insurance plans on the federal marketplace and and receive income-based financial assistance to make their healthcare plans affordable</p>
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<p>More than&nbsp;<strong>370,000 low-income Louisianans</strong>&nbsp;recently gained access to affordable health care after the Governor expanded Medicaid this year.</p>
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<p><strong>Repealing&nbsp;the ACA would be a&nbsp;<u>disaster</u>&nbsp;for Louisiana&#39;s already dire budget situation.</strong></p>
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<p>The state stands to lose&nbsp;<strong>$26.7 billion</strong>&nbsp;in federal funding over the next 10 years with ACA repeal, not to mention rising costs of uncompensated care for the uninsured.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>We would lose an estimated&nbsp;<strong>37,000 health care jobs&nbsp;</strong>in our state and&nbsp;<strong>$39.1 billion</strong>&nbsp;in business output with repeal of Medicaid expansion alone.</p>
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<p><span>Finally, after you&#39;ve called, please email us at JSRI@loyno.edu to let us know what you heard!</span></p>