Quote of the Week:“Of course laws will not eliminate prejudice from the hearts of human beings. But that is no reason to allow prejudice to continue to be enshrined in our laws - to perpetuate injustice through inaction.” – Shirley Chisholm Take Three Actions Now:Support Supreme Court Ethics Act Support the Supreme Court Ethics Act (H.R. 4766 / and S. 2512). Eliminate the loophole that has left Supreme Court justices exempt from any formalized code of conduct by requiring the Judicial Conference to promulgate an ethics code for the entire judiciary, including SCOTUS, within a year of the bill’s enactment. Action 1: Contact your representatives by telephone or email. Option A: Contact your representatives by telephone or email.
Script: Hello. My name is [NAME] and I live in [CITY, ZIP]. I am asking you to cosponsor the Supreme Court Ethics Act (H.R. 4766 / S. 2512). Supreme Court justices serve lifetime appointments with no meaningful checks on their exercise of public power. There is simply no compelling reason to have a system that demands less from those at the apex of the federal judiciary than it does from those at every other level. Thank you! Option B: Take this action with one click in Take Action Network (TAN) Support Supreme Court Ethics Act (H.R. 4766 / S. 2512) Eliminate the loophole that has left Supreme Court justices exempt from any formalized code of conduct by requiring the Judicial Conference to promulgate an ethics code for the entire judiciary, including SCOTUS, within a year of the bill’s enactment. Action 1: Contact your representatives by telephone or email. Option A: Contact your representatives by telephone or email. Senator Patty Murray, Phone: 253-572-3636 or Contact Form Senator Maria Cantwell, Phone: 253-572-2281 or Contact Form Marilyn Strickland, Phone: 202-225-9740 or Contact Form Email all three MOCs at once using Democracy.io. Script: Hello. My name is [NAME] and I live in [CITY, ZIP]. I am asking you to cosponsor the Supreme Court Ethics Act (H.R. 4766 / S. 2512). Supreme Court justices serve lifetime appointments with no meaningful checks on their exercise of public power. There is simply no compelling reason to have a system that demands less from those at the apex of the federal judiciary than it does from those at every other level. Thank you! Option B: Take this action with one click in Take Action Network (TAN) Support Supreme Court Ethics Act (H.R. 4766 / S. 2512) Continue Funding Covid19 Treatment  The White House has warned that starting March 22, 2022, it will phase out a Covid program that reimburses doctors and medical providers the cost of testing, treating and vaccinating the uninsured. The arrangement is set to end in early April — the result of a lack of federal government funding after Democrats and Republicans in Congress were unable to agree on an additional $22.5 billion in budget allocation that the White House had requested for Covid relief. Background: President Biden Pressures Congress for Emergency Covid Funds Action 2: Contact our Members of Congress and tell them to act now. Option A: Contact your representatives by telephone or email.
Script: Hello, my name is [NAME] and I live in [CITY, ZIP]. Please sponsor and support a bill to ensure funding for a Covid program that reimburses doctors and medical providers the cost of testing, treating and vaccinating the uninsured. We must continue to prevent and treat COVID. Option B: Take this action with one click in Take Action Network (TAN) Continue Funding Covid19 Treatment Ask Rep. Strickland to Protect Medicare from Trump Era Privatization Background: In the waning days of the Trump Administration, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) launched a pilot program called Medicare Direct Contracting. This under-the-radar program invited third-party middlemen to “manage” the care of Traditional Medicare beneficiaries. It also created a financial incentive for these middlemen to frustrate patients and deny medically necessary care. Thanks to the efforts of thousands of activists, Direct Contracting became thoroughly discredited and the Biden Administration was pressured to address the program. Unfortunately, their response was to simply rebrand Direct Contracting as Medicare REACH, a program that retains the worst elements of its predecessor and in some cases is even more generous to industry. Action 3: Contact Rep. Strickland Option A: Contact your representative by telephone or email.
Script: I am asking Representative Strickland to advocate for the immediate termination of REACH (formerly known as Direct Contracting), a Trump-era privatization tactic that has removed millions of seniors from Traditional Medicare without their knowledge or consent. Although REACH middlemen are required to notify seniors of their enrollment, few seniors are likely to understand the implications. Because seniors are automatically enrolled into REACH based upon their relationship with their primary care provider, the only way for a beneficiary to opt out is to change primary care providers, an extremely difficult task for many seniors but especially for those living in rural or other under-served areas. I am also concerned that the REACH program’s payment model creates dangerous incentives to restrict care. While Traditional Medicare pays doctors and hospitals directly for care, the REACH program pays middlemen a monthly payment to cover a defined portion of each seniors’ medical expenses. REACH middlemen participants are then allowed to keep as profit and overhead what they don’t pay for in health services, a powerful financial incentive to ration seniors’ care. A majority of seniors choose Traditional Medicare because it is simple, efficient, and empowers them to manage their own health. I urge you to respect seniors’ choices and protect Medicare by advocating for the immediate termination of REACH. Sincerely, [NAME], [CITY, ZIP] Additional Talking Points:
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