Today the GOP House will vote, for the 52nd time, to repeal Obamacare.
One provision of the ACA states that all newly-written health plans - whether they be private, employer-provided, purchased on exchange, etc - will provide free preventive care.
Free preventive care includes free immunizations for adults, for influenza, for example; and for children for such devastating diseases as measles, mumps, Rubella.
Did you get a free flu shot this winter? I did! I was thrilled at no copay.
Did your kids get no copay MMR vaccines at their pediatricians office? Hope so!
So, in a serendipity the GOP did not foresee, and the American media will surely ignore unless we do something this morning to publicize it, today, while we are in the midst of a measles outbreak, House Republicans will be voting "yes" to repealing free access to measles vaccines for insured Americans.
I strongly recommend you call your House Representative, be they Dem or GOP, right now, and inform them that this 52nd repeal of the ACA will not go unnoticed.
This is not another "repeal Obamacare" vote. Today's vote is a vote against free access to measles vaccine by every insured American.
We just spent the weekend with GOP candidates embarrassing themselves over their lack of compassion and knowlege of public health.
Now, today's House 52nd Obamacare repeal vote is not just "symbolic" and to be ignored - it is an organization of monsters actively choosing to take away American citizen access to immunizations during a disease outbreak.
This is horrid. This is monstrous. This is cruel.
This is the Republican party not only ignoring an ongoing major public health threat, but actively contributing to the disease spread via their actions today.
The measles vote should be the lead story on every local and national news station tonight.
The LEAD story.
I called my three local stations and submitted the story as "breaking news" Believe me - reporters have NOT made this connection, and are shocked to realize it's true.
Reporters are often parents, and they get furious at direct threats to their babies lives very readily.
After the weekend GOP "vaccination" disasters with Chris Christie and Rand Paul, today's tone-deaf vote against measles vaccine access shows how cold, cruel and dangerous to America the Republican party actually is.
This is real life. This is our children's lives. This is no longer just a symbolic waste of money for a vote that panders to the lowest common denominator of the GOP base.
YOU can help make this the biggest news story of today. Reframe today's "House votes to repeal Obamacare again" story to the reality of this action -
"Today, while America is in the midst of a measles outbreak, the Republican House of Representatives voted to eliminate free access to measles vaccines for all insured Americans".
The list of phone numbers of House reps:
http://www.house.gov/...
Call your local TV stations, too.
5:00pm Republicans have voted "yes" to harming Americans
2:11 PM PT: Republicans have voted "yes" to harming Americans