The next visitor publish was written for Every day Kos by Ben Wikler, chair of the Democratic Celebration of Wisconsin. This publish doesn’t characterize an official endorsement by Every day Kos.
OK, so ought to we reduce well being care to fund tax giveaways to the wealthy?
Ask voters what they consider that concept, and so they’re not shy: They hate it.
Ask Republican lawmakers, and it’ll be apparent that it’s been their purpose all alongside.
A ballot of voters in battleground Home districts discovered that 68% opposed chopping Medicaid to pay for tax cuts and 22% supported the concept. However the plan is barreling ahead.
A protester holds an indication that reads, “Save our lives … don’t cut medicaid.”
For those who’re one of many 68% against Medicaid cuts—particularly when you’re represented by Republicans in Congress—now could be the time to get loud.
First, take a second to be taught what the GOP is proposing and why it’s unhealthy. One GOP concept is to cost poor folks extra for his or her well being care, and one other is to cut back federal help for Medicaid growth—which might kick 5.5 million folks off their protection. One other Republican vivid concept is to make it tougher to enroll in Medicaid, inflicting 2.3 million folks to lose their advantages.
That’s only a partial listing of the GOP’s horrible concepts—there are numerous extra, every of them rancid. Their proposals kill jobs, damage the economic system, and make the lives of the poorest even tougher. If handed, the GOP’s assaults on well being care would reduce brief tens of hundreds of People’ lives.
This isn’t a recreation.
Why reduce Medicaid? The GOP’s purpose is to search out $880 billion to assist pay for an enormous tax reduce for the ultra-wealthy, who’re the Republican Celebration’s precedence.
This isn’t a shock. Over the past GOP trifecta, their first large invoice tried to repeal the Reasonably priced Care Act. We defeated it. The second was a huge tax reduce for the ultra-rich, which handed and blew a gap within the federal funds.
Chopping Medicaid to make means for tax cuts for the wealthy is oligarchy in motion. However we don’t must let it occur.
Right here’s your to-do listing:
First, make some cellphone calls. 5Calls.org makes it straightforward. This web page has information in regards to the battle for Medicaid, a name script, and a helpful software for calling your legislators. Make these calls, and put a reminder in your cellphone to do it each weekday.
Subsequent, take into consideration who you understand who may care sufficient about this to take motion. Ship this alongside to them, drop them a textual content, or make one other name to ask in the event that they’d be up for becoming a member of you.
Voila. You’re an advocate and an organizer.
Then, be a part of MoveOn’s cellphone financial institution on the night of Might 8. You’ll name Democratic voters in key districts and, in the event that they agree, simply press a button and join them to their very own members of Congress.
Subsequent you’ll become involved with a gaggle organizing protests on the bottom. There are a ton. Join with some organizations like MoveOn, Indivisible, and varied incapacity rights teams to get alerts.
And one final thing: let’s recommit to making sure that these extremists lose their MAGA majorities in 2026.
We must be speaking about increasing well being protection and bringing prices down, not slashing it and driving prices up.
Democratic Gov. Tony Evers of Wisconsin
For Wisconsinites, all of these concepts are specified by Gov. Tony Evers’ funds proposal. Wisconsin Republicans, led by State Meeting Speaker Robin Vos, are poised to as soon as once more slash these packages from the funds this 12 months. However as soon as we win a trifecta in 2026, we will make Evers’ proposal a actuality in Wisconsin in 2027.
After we flip the Home in 2026, together with newly blue seats in Wisconsin, we will make these GOP assaults on Medicaid a relic of the previous, not a day by day nightmare. And once we win a federal trifecta in 2028, we will transfer ahead with the imaginative and prescient that each single Democratic president has labored to advance, step by—usually painfully incremental—step.
We will do the work to make sure that each American has the well being care that each human being deserves, with no consideration quite than a privilege, with out prices that pressure working folks to decide on between medication and meals.
As soon as we win that trifecta, we’ll marvel the way it took so lengthy. However now, we should forestall the GOP’s demolition of thousands and thousands of People’ protection—and precise the best doable political worth on these making an attempt to steal from the poor to counterpoint the already rich.
Preventing a battle like this—win or lose—is the fitting factor to do. And it exhibits voters whose facet Democrats are on: theirs.
It is a battle the place the overwhelming majority of the nation is on our facet, and MAGA is on the opposite.
