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THIS WEEK: Moms Deliver Cupcakes to GOP Senators Urging Opposition to Graham-Cassidy Health Care Repeal Bill

September 25, 2017
Health Care

Lisa Lederer, 202-371-1996

MomsRising to Senators: “Protecting Our Health Care Should Be a Piece of Cake!”; “Thank You” Action Planned for Senator McCain’s Office in Phoenix
WASHINGTON, DC -- This week, local members of MomsRising, a national online and on-the-ground organization of more than 1 million mothers and their families, in Arizona, Colorado and Ohio will deliver cupcakes to the in-district offices of Senator Cory Gardner (R-CO) and Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) urging them to oppose the Graham-Cassidy health care repeal bill and protect the health insurance of the more than 30 million Americans who would lose coverage under the proposed legislation.  In Arizona, MomsRising members will deliver “thank you’ cupcakes to Senator John McCain (R-AZ).
 
At Senator John McCain’s Offices in Phoenix, Arizona:
WHEN:  Tuesday, September 26th. 10:30AM LOCAL TIME.
WHERE: Senator McCain’s Phoenix Office. 2201 E Camelback Rd #115, Phoenix, AZ 85016
LOCAL CONTACT: Elizabeth Enright | 480-849-1020
 
At Senator Cory Gardner’s Offices in Denver, Colorado:
WHEN: Tuesday, September 26th. 10:30AM LOCAL TIME.
WHERE:  Senator Gardner’s Denver Office. 721 19th Street, Suite 150. Denver, CO 80202
LOCAL CONTACT: Erin Bennett | 303-601-9510
 
At Senator Rob Portman’s Offices in Cincinnati, Ohio:
WHEN: Monday, September 25th. 4:30PM LOCAL TIME
WHERE: Senator Portman’s Cincinnati Office.  312 Walnut St #3425, Cincinnati, OH 45202
 
MomsRising points out that the Graham-Cassidy health care repeal bill would have a devastating impact on women.  Cuts to federal funding for Medicaid would be especially damaging as women make up two-thirds of Medicaid’s adult enrollees, with Medicaid covering half of all childbirths in the United States.  The Graham-Cassidy plan would also end the ACA’s Medicaid expansion, which has allowed 3.9 million women to gain access to health coverage. In a particularly cruel move, the bill would impose punitive work requirements on Medicaid enrollees, making many women have to return to work after childbirth sooner than they're ready in order to keep their health insurance.
 
The Republican plan would also allow states to acquire waivers to exempt insurers from covering essential health benefits like maternity care, which could leave new mothers shouldering tens of thousands of dollars in hospital bills. And cuts to Planned Parenthood would leave millions of women without access to the routine (and potentially life-saving) preventive care they need.
 
“President Trump and Republicans in the US Senate seem to be determined to leave the American people without the lifesaving protections gained under the Affordable Care Act - but the moms of America will not stand by and let that happen,” explained Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, CEO and executive director of MomsRising. “Protecting health care should be a piece of cake - so we’re delivering cupcakes to tell Senators to do their jobs by doing what’s right and oppose this latest attempt to take a wrecking ball to health care and families in the United States.”
 
For more information, or for interviews with MomsRising members, please contact Brett Abrams at 516-841-1105 or by email at brett@unbendablemedia.com
 

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MomsRising.org is an on-the-ground and online grassroots organization of more than a million people who are working to increase family economic security, decrease discrimination against women and moms, and to build a nation where businesses and families can thrive. Established in 2006, MomsRising and its members are organizing and speaking out to improve public policy and to change the national dialogue on issues that are critically important to America’s families, including criminal justice reform, immigration policy reform, and gun safety. MomsRising is working for paid family and medical leave, affordable, high quality childcare and early learning, and for an end to the wage and hiring discrimination which penalizes women — particularly moms and women of color — and so many others. MomsRising advocates for access to healthy food for all kids, health care for all, earned sick days, and breastfeeding rights so that all children can have a healthy start. MomsRising maintains a Spanish language website: MamásConPoder.org. Sign up online at www.MomsRising.org — and follow us on our blog, and on Twitter and Facebook.