Daily Archives: 06/16/2017

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Public Health Emergency. Resilient People. Healthy Communities. A Nation Prepared.

Serving through the Storm: Choosing the Right Service Organization

Hurricane season is here!  You can help communities stay healthy, safe and strong through the storm.  Get started before the storm strikes! Learn about three service organizations that help protect health and save lives when disaster strikes and how to join.  Learn More >>

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Beat the Heat:  Preventing and Treating Heat-Related Illness

Summer is here and temperatures are rising across many parts of the country, putting many people at risk for heat-related illness. But not everybody has the same level of risk.  Children under four years of age, adults over 65, people who are overweight, and people who are on certain medications are more susceptible to heat related illness. Find out how you can prevent heat-related illnesses and how recognize when someone needs help.  Learn More >>

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Protect Your Partner from Zika

If you are infected with Zika, you can transmit it to your partner – even if you don’t have symptoms.  Many people infected with Zika virus don’t have symptoms or only have mild symptoms, and they may not know they have been infected. Think you might be infected?  Recently traveled to a location where Zika is present?  Use a condom to prevent spreading the virus. Learn More >>

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Be Ready to Help!  Bystander Response Saves Lives

During National Safety Month, people and organizations across the country are asking themselves “what does it take to keep each other safe?” One simple answer: be ready to help!  Learn about 5 simple steps that you can take to save someone’s life if they are hurt. Learn how you can help keep a critically injured person alive until help arrives.  Learn More >>

 Man carrying injured woman

Be a Super Dad! Make Sure Your Family is Ready for Disasters

Make plans now to keep your family safe and healthy in a disaster.  Get a kit.  Make a plan.  Do a drill.  By taking some time to prepare before a disaster strikes, you can help your family face a tornado, flood, hurricane or whatever other disasters are common in your area.  Learn More >>

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URGENT: Tell the Senate to Reject ACA Repeal NOW


Do your part to protect our care. Take action now!

THIS is the moment.

Right now Senate Republican leaders are finalizing the details of their bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA)—in secret. They’re keeping the bill hidden until they’ve negotiated a deal with other Republicans, one that will very likely strip health care coverage from millions of people, including taking away Medicaid coverage and putting maternity coverage at risk.

We can’t let them reach that deal. We need to flood the Senate phone lines now.

Urge Your Senators to Oppose ACA Repeal
Here are simple steps for calling your Senators.

  • Step 1: Call the Congressional switchboard at 202-224-3121 and ask to be connected to one of your Senators.
  • Step 2: Once you are connected, say:

“As your constituent, I urge you to reject ACA repeal. No one should lose their health coverage, and this repeal bill threatens the health care of millions of people including women, elderly people, children, and people with disabilities. [If you have a personal story to share, adding why the ACA has been important to you is an especially powerful message.]”

  • Step 3: Hang up, call again and ask for your other Senator.
Take Action

We are at a critical point in our fight to protect affordable health care. And yet, we’re hearing news reports that the Senate phones lines have been mostly quiet. There is too much at stake for any of us to stay silent right now. Whether you think your Senators oppose repeal or not, every call matters. Pick up the phone now and do your part to protect our care!

If this repeal bill is similar to the House version like Senate Republican leaders and the Trump administration have promised, it would be devastating for women by:

  • Blocking people from getting preventive health care at Planned Parenthood health centers, including birth control, cancer screenings, and STI testing and treatment;
  • Radically changing the Medicaid program in ways that will leave low-income women without essential health coverage;
  • Allowing insurance plans to treat being a woman as a preexisting condition; and
  • Penalizing women seeking insurance coverage that includes abortion.

None of us can afford to sit this fight out. We need to call our Senators today – AND tomorrow – to show them that We, the Resistance will not stand for any attacks on our care.

Thank you for fighting and resisting with us.

Sincerely,
Gretchen Borchelt
Vice President for Reproductive Rights and Health
National Women’s Law Center

P.S. Do you or your friends or loved ones live in any of these states: Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Maine, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, or West Virginia? The Senators there may be on the fence, so it’s extra important that they hear from their constituents in opposition of ACA repeal. Make sure to forward this email and tell your friends it is crucial that they call their Senators today.

We the Resistance is our fight to protect our rights and freedoms and to defend the most vulnerable among us through powerful collective action. Every conversation you have with a loved one about the issues important to you, every call you make to Congress, every rally you attend is a part of that resistance. Join us — sign on to the We The Resistance manifesto.