The Moral Bankruptcy of GOP needs re-thinking!
The message below from MoveOn:
Another state is joining the
right side of history. Pennsylvania will soon become the 28th state to offer
Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act.1 After years of
stonewalling by Republican Governor Tom Corbett, who's fighting for his
political life in a tough re-election bid, Pennsylvania will also join a growing
group of Republican-led states to lift their self-imposed Medicaid
Blockade.2
The announcement is a welcome
relief for up to 500,000 Pennsylvanians who would otherwise be left without any
health coverage.3 It's also a deep affirmation of the hard work by
elected leaders, groups organizing in Pennsylvania like Keystone Progress and
Working America, and health care activists who've been advocating for Medicaid
expansion—including hundreds of thousands of MoveOn members like you.
MoveOn members in
North Carolina rallying in March for Medicaid expansion
Across the country, MoveOn
members are pitching in and participating in other campaigns to pressure elected
officials and change the public debate around Medicaid
expansion. In Pennsylvania alone, more
than 13,000 MoveOn members signed petitions to the Republican
governor urging him to accept the federal funds to cover the state's residents
under Medicaid.
In Utah, one MoveOn member,
independent filmmaker Paul Gibbs, made a documentary called "Entitled to Life,"
which won wide praise for shining a spotlight on the stories of people in the
Medicaid gap.4,5 With support from MoveOn members,
Paul is now making films featuring the stories of people trapped behind the
Republican Medicaid Blockade in other states—starting with North Carolina and
Florida.
MoveOn members like you are
crucial to making these campaigns and victories possible. State by state,
we're steadily winning on Medicaid expansion—and we're winning the argument
about whether to keep moving forward to ensure that all Americans have access to
quality, affordable health care. In another sign of the shifting politics
around Obamacare, even Gov. Bill Haslam, the Republican governor of bright red
Tennessee who's up for re-election, is moving toward Medicaid
expansion.6 Now, with 23 states left to go, and the wall of
opposition steadily cracking, it'll take all of us pitching in to fully end the
Republican Medicaid Blockade.7
For now, we just wanted to share
this terrific news—and thank you for all you've done, and will
do.
–Victoria,
Ben W., Alejandro, Aiyi'nah, and the rest of the team
Sources:
1. "Republican
Governor Agrees To Expand Medicaid For Low-Income Residents In Pennsylvania,"
The Huffington Post, August 28, 2014
http://www.moveon.org/r/?r=300540&id=100603-3735812-QGHrKTx&t=1
http://www.moveon.org/r/?r=300540&id=100603-3735812-QGHrKTx&t=1
2. "GOP Governor In Tough
Re-election Bid Prepares To Implement Obamacare," ThinkProgress, August 28, 2014
http://www.moveon.org/r/?r=300541&id=100603-3735812-QGHrKTx&t=2
http://www.moveon.org/r/?r=300541&id=100603-3735812-QGHrKTx&t=2
3. Ibid.
4. "Entitled To Life," Filmmaker
Paul Gibbs, June 3, 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2kEubKv1LI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2kEubKv1LI
5. "Film: Tragic stories of
Utahns in the Medicaid coverage gap," The Salt Lake Tribune, June 4, 2014
http://www.moveon.org/r/?r=300168&id=100603-3735812-QGHrKTx&t=3
http://www.moveon.org/r/?r=300168&id=100603-3735812-QGHrKTx&t=3
6. "Haslam may submit Medicaid
expansion plan in fall," The Tennessean, August 28, 2014
http://www.moveon.org/r/?r=300551&id=100603-3735812-QGHrKTx&t=4
http://www.moveon.org/r/?r=300551&id=100603-3735812-QGHrKTx&t=4
7. "Status of State Action on the
Medicaid Expansion Decision," Kaiser Family Foundation, accessed August 29, 2014
http://www.moveon.org/r/?r=296305&id=100603-3735812-QGHrKTx&t=5
http://www.moveon.org/r/?r=296305&id=100603-3735812-QGHrKTx&t=5
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