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Weekly Call To Action - April 3, 2022

4/3/2022

 

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

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​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. 

  • 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) ​

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).
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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

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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. 

  • 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]. 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

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​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. 
  • Marilyn Strickland, Phone: 202-225-9740 or Contact Form 

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:
  • Requiring seniors to change their physicians of choice because of a policy change at CMMI is an undue burden, and does not serve the best interests of the public.
  • The REACH payment model not only threatens seniors’ care; it would drain Medicare of billions of dollars of needed revenue each year. Traditional Medicare spends 98% of its budget on patient care, but REACH middlemen could spend as littleas 60% of Medicare payments on care — keeping up to 40% of revenues for their own profit and overhead.
  • We are also concerned about the lack of transparency in the REACH program. Under this model, CMMI is empowered to implement REACH across all of Traditional Medicare without any oversight or approval from Congress, without any statutory codification of the program, or without any input from seniors, health advocates, taxpayers, or other stakeholders. 
  • CMMI has publicly stated its intention to move all Traditional Medicare beneficiaries into programs like REACH by the year 2030.

Option B: Take this action with one click in Take Action Network (TAN) Ask Rep. Strickland to End Medicare Privatization!

Have You Scheduled These Events?
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Action Cafe 
Tomorrow (April 4) at Noon

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Please come to tomorrow's Action Cafe! This weekly Zoom lunch hour gathering is a place to meet, eat, build fellowship and take actions together.

Action: Register HERE for the April 4 Action Cafe. We will send you a Zoom link and tomorrow morning, we'll send you our "menu" with live links for the actions we'll take together. ​

What Happens to Your Ballot After You Send It?

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​Attend Observer Training
Thursday, April 7, 5:30-7:00 pm, on Zoom

Want to understand what happens to your ballot after you send it? Attend Observer Training conducted by the Thurston County Elections office. 

After this training, you can observe all ballot processing for any election this year: 
  • Olympia Special Election, April 26, 2022; 
  • Primary Election, August 2; 
  • General Election, November 8.

If unable to attend this training contact the Thurston County Elections office for alternate training options. Observers need to attend only one training per year.

Pre-registration is not required
  • Zoom link to go directly to the training. 
  • Or use this: Meeting ID: 970 3140 9519, Passcode: 602746

​Sponsor Our Hunger Walk Team
and/or
Come Walk with the Team

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Olympia Indivisible is proud to support the 2022
Thurston County Hunger Walk, an annual fundraiser to help The Community Kitchen & The Thurston County Food Bank get food to those in need. 

This year’s walk will take place at the athletic track at St. Martin’s University, Sunday May 1st beginning sharply at 3:00 pm. Olympia Indivisible will have a walking "team" at the event and we're taking pledges right now!

Action A: Please visit our OI Hunger Walk Team Donation Site to make a donation on behalf of OI. We’ve already raised $905 on our way to our $4000 goal.
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Action B: Consider being part of the walk part of OI's Thurston Hunger Walk Team. You can walk as much or as little as feels right. Sign up here to walk. We would love to see you in person. 

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