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Join the Democrats today
This is a critical moment for Democrats — and we need your support.
In the wake of the fall elections, all the progress we’ve made with President Obama over the course of the past two years is hanging in the balance. The Republicans are working to repeal everything we’ve done — starting with health reform.
We’re ready to fight back and defend our accomplishments, but we can’t do it without your commitment.
Your support fuels everything that we do — from recruiting organizers to running aggressive radio and television ads. And at this key moment, it will help launch campaigns to make clear exactly what a Republican agenda would mean for Americans.
We need you to take your support to the next level and become a member of the Democratic National Committee.
As a member, you’ll be joining a group of supporters across the country who are proud of the reforms this President and Democrats in Congress have been able to accomplish together — folks who know that these achievements are worth fighting for.
And you couldn’t be joining us at a more crucial moment.
Last fall, up against a spending machine fueled by special interests and shadowy outside organizations, we poured our resources into holding ground in critical states.
Republicans can bank on groups like these for all the support they need — but we don’t, and we never have. We rely instead on folks like you pitching in what you can.
And right now, we’re ready to take up the battles ahead.
Stand up for Democrats and the President with a membership donation of $25 or more today — and get your 2011 DNC membership card:
http://my.democrats.org/2011Member
Thanks,
Jen
Jen O’Malley Dillon
Executive Director
Democratic National Committee
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The new Republican House majority was just sworn in yesterday—but we don’t have to wait to find out whose side they’re on. They’re showing us from Day One that it’s politics as usual—they’re on the side of the insurance companies and other big businesses that spent gobs of money to elect them.
Instead of helping put America back to work, instead of helping rebuild our crumbling infrastructure and instead of fixing our foreclosure mess, the new House Republican majority wants to undo all the progress we’ve made over the past two years, starting with a vote next week to completely repeal the Affordable Care Act.
Repealing health care reform would strip away the crackdowns we’ve fought so hard for on insurance company abuse. It would lead to the deaths of an estimated 30,000 people a year because they wouldn’t be able to get affordable insurance. It would add $10 billion a year to the deficit. And it’s also a waste of precious time—a cheap shot to score political points.
But the new Republican majority in the House is more interested in playing political football with our health than in protecting children, seniors and middle-class Americans.
We can’t go backward. We can’t go back to letting insurance companies refuse coverage to sick children, limit our medical care or bring back lifetime and annual caps on benefits that drive more families into bankruptcy. To start fighting back, we’re collecting stories about how the Affordable Care Act is helping real people, right now.
Many parts of the new Affordable Care Act are already in effect and helping tens of millions of U.S. families get quality health care.
Tell us your story about how health care reform has helped you, your family or people you know.
Then read and comment on other stories and tell your friends.
In solidarity,
Manny Herrmann
Online Mobilization Coordinator, AFL-CIO
P.S. You might be benefiting from the Affordable Care Act right now and not even know it. Here are some of the ways health care reform is already helping millions:
- Insurance companies can no longer deny coverage to children with pre-existing conditions and young people can stay on their parents’ policies until age 26. Have your kids—or the kids of someone you know—been helped? Let us know.
- Insurance companies can’t drop people from coverage when they become sick or put a lifetime cap on benefits. Have you or someone in your family with a serious illness benefited? If so, let us know.
- Insurance companies must cover preventive care such as mammograms, annual physicals and cancer screenings without deductibles or co-pays. Has this preventive care rule helped you?
- For Medicare recipients, the new law already has provided a $250 prescription drug rebate. This year, it will lower drug costs even more and eventually close the donut hole (the gap in coverage when seniors must pay full price for their needed medications.) If the Republicans repeal the Affordable Care Act, seniors would have to pay the government back and would get no further benefits. Has this benefit helped you pay for needed prescriptions? Do you need the donut hole closed so you don’t have to choose between food and medicine?
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Breaking: Unrest in Southern Sudan
Recent elections in Sudan could lead to a new outbreak of violence once the results are made public. I urge you to support the International Rescue Committee’s life-saving work today as they prepare to assist victims of the renewed strife. The IRC has been working in the area for over 20 years providing health care and emergency aid.
Don Hazen
Executive Editor, AlterNet.org
Unrest in Southern Sudan
Another potential war is looming in Sudan — a country widely known for the brutal conflict in its Darfur region. On January 9, voters in Southern Sudan went to the polls to cast their votes to decide whether they would secede from the north. While results won’t be known for a week, the outcome may heighten tensions in a decades-old conflict between the regions.
We have readied emergency supplies, including clean water, food and shelter materials and are distributing them across the region. The IRC has worked in Southern Sudan for more than 20 years. In addition to emergency aid, our staff there — a majority of whom are Sudanese nationals — currently provide essential services like health care and education to more than 600,000 people. While the political tensions between the north and south are vastly complex, one thing is simple. We must do everything in our power to protect innocent lives. That is why the IRC is providing critical aid to families in Sudan and in 40 other countries and 22 U.S. cities. With your support, we can continue this important work. Sincerely, All of us at the International Rescue Committee P.S. Ninety cents of every dollar we spend is used to support IRC programs all over the world. And we are proud to have earned four stars from Charity Navigator for four straight years.  |
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your health care
Good grief. The new House Republican majority has already announced that they will vote to repeal last year’s health care bill. And the vote will happen next week!
Democrats want to offer amendments to save the most popular parts of that bill — keeping kids on their parents’ health care until age 26, ending discrimination against pre-existing conditions, and filling in the prescription drug “doughnut hole” that forces seniors to pay thousands.
But the Tea Party says they won’t allow any amendments — even to protect popular reforms that save lives.
Yesterday, Adam and I, plus our Capitol Hill director Shaunna Thomas, talked to several Democratic members of Congress — and they are eager to highlight the real stories of people who would be impacted if Republicans had their way. So we’ll share your stories with them.
The House bill will go nowhere in the Democratic Senate, but next week’s debate is a valuable opportunity to show America just how crazy the Tea Party zealots are — and to show Democrats how to start swinging from day one.
If repealing the reforms listed above would impact you, please share your story here.
Please pass this email to others you know who would be impacted by Republican proposals. And thanks for being a bold progressive.
P.S. A recent Associated Press poll showed that by 2 to 1, Americans think last year’s health care law didn’t go far enough — as opposed to thinking it was too much government. So this year, we’ll be pushing Democrats to give Americans a government-run, public, “affordable health insurance option.” But the best way to encourage Democrats to play offense in the future is to help them play good defense next week. That’s where your health care stories come in — click here to tell us yours.
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