Millions of Americans lost their employer-sponsored health insurance during this pandemic — on top of the millions of Americans who already lacked insurance. There’s much work to be done to transform our fundamentally flawed health care system — but Congress can do a few things right now to help close the coverage gap.
Expand the Affordable Care Act with a subsidy boost to make health care plans more affordable for people on unemployment, low-income families, and middle-class families that don’t qualify for assistance now;
Incentivize red states to expand Medicaid, encouraging them to cover health care for up to 4 million low-income Americans who aren’t covered now; and,
Expand emergency funding for Medicaid-provided home and community-based services to enable millions of disabled Americans of all ages to live safely at home.
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Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill.- I HOPE YOU ARE SINCERE IN YOUR DESIRE TO MOVE THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AWAY FROM THE TRUMPIAN POLITICS OF HATE AND IRRATIONALITY. IT WOULD BE A DEFINITE IMPROVEMENT TO HAVE BOTH MAJOR PARTIES CARING ABOUT THE FUTURE OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
AS FOR YOUR FAMILY: I'M SURE TRUMP AND PUTIN ARE PLEASED. UNFORTUNATELY, YOU CAN'T SAVE FASCISTS AND FOOLS FROM THEMSELVES.
( I HAVE PLACED, IN ITALICS, PARTS OF THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE BECAUSE IT TYPIFIES THE MENTALITY OF THE AVERAGE TRUMP SUPPORTER THAT I COME ACROSS ON A REGULAR BASIS.
Family feud: GOP Rep. Kinzinger's relatives admonish him for impeachment vote.
Eleven members of his family signed a letter lambasting him for his vote last month to impeach the then-president, who they defended as a Christian.
“Oh my, what a disappointment you are to us and to God!” they wrote, accusing Kinzinger of going “against your Christian principles” and joining the “devil’s army.”
"It is now most embarrassing to us that we are related to you," they added.
His relatives also sent the letter to other conservative lawmakers.
“We should listen even more grievances against you, but decided you are not worth more of our time to list them,” the letter from his relatives continued. “You have embarrassed the Kinzinger family name!”
Kinzinger, one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump last month, also voted this month to strip Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., of her committee posts for espousing conspiracy theories.
He’s betting his career on disavowing Trumpism, pushing for an alternative path for the GOP. He recently launched a "Country 1st" political action committee, which seeks to put some money behind the political effort confronting a party largely still aligned with the former president.
"The reality is this — this is the time to choose," Kinzinger said during an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press" on Jan. 31. "Let's take a look at the last four years how far we have come in a bad way, how backward-looking we are, how much we peddle darkness and division. That's not the party I ever signed up for."
In the interview, he hinted at the letter, saying he'd received two certified letters "disowning me."
It's likely to be an uphill, lonely battle: During the impeachment vote, Kinzinger asked Democrats for more speaking time to make a bipartisan pitch for the impeachment of Trump, according to the Times, but was denied. Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming voted to impeach Trump and only narrowly held on to her leadership position in the House when her party mounted an effort to strip her of it.
To lonely dogs, ailing cats, and countless other neglected companion animals, PETA’s fieldworkers and cruelty caseworkers are nothing short of miracle workers.
Our fieldworkers and Emergency Response Team are on call 24/7/365—often coming to an animal’s aid when no one else will. We’re delivering sturdy custom-built doghouses that offer “backyard dogs” some relief during dangerous weather, providing free and low-cost spay and neuter surgeries to help tackle the companion-animal homelessness crisis at its roots, and responding at all hours of the day and night to ensure that sick, injured, and neglected animals get the help they urgently need.
Our Mobile Clinics Division is a model high-volume spay/neuter program that sterilizes more than 12,000 animals annually, and it also provides free emergency surgeries and treatments that keep injured or ailing animals with their loving families when they’ve have fallen on hard times.
February 23 is World Spay Day—and we’re celebrating the occasion with our first-ever town hall meeting on PETA’s vital work for companion animals. I hope you’ll be there!
This inspiring town hall—featuring PETA President Ingrid Newkirk, Senior Vice President of Cruelty Investigations Daphna Nachminovitch, and Mobile Clinics Division Director Lori-Jo Ciccone—will give you an inside look at PETA’s shelter, fieldwork, and companion-animal assistance programs, as well as sharing poignant stories of individual animals we’ve helped, like a senior dog named Edith, who was rescued and adopted after spending years chained outside.
Edith’s story also appears in Breaking the Chain, a powerful documentary produced by Anjelica Huston that offers a glimpse into PETA’s fieldwork. We’ll be giving away a limited number of free Breaking the Chain viewings, so please don’t miss out on your chance to win.
There are two ways you can participate in this meeting. If you’d like to attend via computer (which I encourage so that you won’t miss out on seeing the photos and videos that we’ll be sharing), simply log on to PETA.org/FebruaryTownHallat 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on February 23 and you’ll be able to watch the presentation through your web browser. We’ll send a reminder e-mail to you at this address a few minutes before the meeting begins. If you’d like to participate by phone only, simply click here to provide your contact information. PETA will then call you shortly before the meeting begins. You can also attend by calling toll-free at 1-844-881-1316.
I hope you’ll join us on February 23 for an inspiring look at the ways PETA’s fieldworkers and Emergency Response Team are breaking the cycle of companion-animal homelessness, neglect, and misery.
Kind regards, Lisa Lange Senior Vice President of Communications PETA
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