Subject: [big campaign] Hands of Medicare and Medicaid (Note Correct Date is Friday)
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Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:09:28 -0400 (EDT)
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Hands off Medicare and Medicaid.

Who: Progressive Organizations and Members of Congress

What: Large Press Event

Why: To Protest Republican Budget -- and It's Attempt to Eliminate Medicare and Medicaid and replace them with vouchers and block grants.

When: 11AM Friday, House Triangle (between Capitol and House Office Buildings)

On Friday, Speaker Boehner plans to hold a vote on the Republican Budget that would:

     * Replace Medicare with a voucher program for private insurance.  Far from controlling health care costs, CBO estimates this plan would increase health care costs because it replaces an efficient public option with an inefficient private option.  It also raises the share of costs paid by retirees and the disabled by $6,000 per person per year.  

     * Replace Medicaid that provides home care and nursing home care for seniors, and health care for the disabled, children and the poor -- with block grants to the states that do not cover raising health care costs and do nothing to contain those costs.

     * Does both of these things in order to give $4.2 trillion in tax cuts to the wealthy and big corporations and allow private insurance companies to get their hands on the Medicare trust fund.

 

     RSVP to: Lauren Weiner, Americans United for Change 

Lauren Weiner <[email-masked]>

Join Us,

Robert Creamer

Americans United for Change

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