Tell Your Legislators to Oppose the House Republican Replacement for the Affordable Care Act

According to almost every analysis, the House Republican bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act is deeply flawed. It would undo the individual mandate, replacing it with a continuous coverage provision that penalizes consumers who do not maintain health insurance without gaps; it phases out the Medicaid expansion, and cuts funding for the entirety of the Medicaid program under the guise of providing per-capita payments to states; and it undoes the funding streams that supported the ACA without undoing all of its provisions, likely adding significantly to the deficit. Please contact your legislators. Let them know that you oppose the House Republican replacement for the ACA, and that they should, too.

Hello [Senator|Representative] [name]. My name is [name] and I am one of your constituents in [place], [zip]. My phone number is [phone], but I don’t need a call back.

I am calling today to ask you to please oppose the House Republican plan to replace the Affordable Care Act. By substituting a requirement to maintain continuous coverage for the ACA’s individual mandate, the House Republican plan would increase premiums for consumers in the individual insurance market; by phasing out the Medicaid expansion, the House Republican plan would cause many lower-income Americans to lose their insurance; and by repealing the ACA’s funding streams, the House Republican plan would add billions of dollars to the deficit.

The House Republican replacement for the Affordable Care Act is bad policy by any measure, a vote in favor of it is a vote to harm your constituents. Please vote no.