Today and Tomorrow, Join a ‘Stakeout’ to Save Health Care

Today and Tomorrow, Join a ‘Stakeout’ to Save Health Care

Today and Tomorrow, Join a ‘Stakeout’ to Save Health Care

“Trumpcare” would be a disaster. 

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What’s Going On?

The numbers from the Congressional Budget Office are in: The GOP’s proposed replacement for the Affordable Care Act could cause 24 million Americans to lose their health insurance. And as The Nation’s Zoë Carpenter recently pointed out, the plan would also radically rewrite Medicaid and exacerbate our nation’s opioid epidemic by potentially taking away addiction and mental-health coverage from 1.3 million people.

Some people would benefit from the law; as The Nation details in a recent editorial, the richest 400 Americans would each receive an annual tax cut of $7 million. As the editorial states, “what the GOP finally proposed isn’t a health-care plan—it’s a tax cut for the wealthy, paid for by throwing Grandma under the bus.”

What Can I Do?

This Thursday and Friday, members of Congress will be home for a “district work period.” During that time, our friends at MoveOn are asking constituents to take one-hour shifts for “Stakeouts to Save Our Health Care”” outside the district offices of nine Republican senators and 23 Republican representatives. You can click here to see if your district is included and to sign up for a shift. If you don’t have the time, you can spread the word to your friends and family who may be able to attend and call your elected officials (find your senators’ numbers here and representative’s number here) to demand that they protect our health care.

We can not back down

We now confront a second Trump presidency.

There’s not a moment to lose. We must harness our fears, our grief, and yes, our anger, to resist the dangerous policies Donald Trump will unleash on our country. We rededicate ourselves to our role as journalists and writers of principle and conscience.

Today, we also steel ourselves for the fight ahead. It will demand a fearless spirit, an informed mind, wise analysis, and humane resistance. We face the enactment of Project 2025, a far-right supreme court, political authoritarianism, increasing inequality and record homelessness, a looming climate crisis, and conflicts abroad. The Nation will expose and propose, nurture investigative reporting, and stand together as a community to keep hope and possibility alive. The Nation’s work will continue—as it has in good and not-so-good times—to develop alternative ideas and visions, to deepen our mission of truth-telling and deep reporting, and to further solidarity in a nation divided.

Armed with a remarkable 160 years of bold, independent journalism, our mandate today remains the same as when abolitionists first founded The Nation—to uphold the principles of democracy and freedom, serve as a beacon through the darkest days of resistance, and to envision and struggle for a brighter future.

The day is dark, the forces arrayed are tenacious, but as the late Nation editorial board member Toni Morrison wrote “No! This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.”

I urge you to stand with The Nation and donate today.

Onwards,

Katrina vanden Heuvel
Editorial Director and Publisher, The Nation

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