So, if SCOTUS does away with the ACA, does that take effect immediately? Or is there some sort of transition/ramp-down period?
Does this apply to someone transporting themselves, the patient? Does it apply to a bus line or car rental servicing the patient?
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It applies to everything.
I know more about this from work but I can’t say
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Hoping this is the right thread to say: Am thinking of everyone in the US. Hoping it can all work out. (But not holding my breath bcos 2020). What a year you all have had. A year on several years. RIP RBG.
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So far, Sens. Collins and Murkowski have said that they do not support confirming a new justice before the election. That’s a start.
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There are 53 Republican Senators, so if 4 would refrain from voting that leaves 49 which doesn’t pass. If we got that lucky, what does that mean? Do they vote again, or wait until after the election? (Not that I think we will actually get that lucky.)
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McConnell usually knows if he has the votes to pass something. If he doesn’t, it probably won’t even come to a vote.
Though we did have the whole things with McCain crossing party lines on ACA…
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Forwarded from a friend:
Dear friends,
At this stressful time in our history when our Supreme Court and our democracy are in the balance, I want to know that I have done everything I can.
Hope you will join me in calling pivotal senators to encourage them to respect out democratic process. We need only 4 Republican senators vote to follow the precedent set by Mitch McConnell in 2016 to not appoint a new Supreme Court justice so close to an election. I have included the pivotal senators and their phone numbers below.
You can simply say “I am counting on Senator… to respect the will of the people and not install a new justice only 5 weeks before the election when early voting has already begun.” You don’t need to have a policy discussion. You even can call after hours or on the weekend and leave a message.
PHONE NUMBERS TO CALL
Susan Collins 202 224-2523
Joni Ernst 202-224-3254 11 rings before there is a pickup.
Thom Tillis 202-224-6342
Cory Gardner. 202-224-5941
Steve Daines. 202-224-2651
Martha McSally. 202-224-2235
Kelly Loeffler. 202-224-3643
David Perdue 202-224-3521
Lisa Murkowsky: 202-224-6665 She has pledged her support so this would be a thank you of some sort.
MITT ROMNEY…Very Very Important to call 202-224-5251
Even Lindsey Graham (who is on senate judiciary committee). He has not formally pledged his support yet… 202-224-5972
Please help. We are not powerless and our voices can make a difference. Senators do keep track of these calls. Feel free to cut and paste this email and share with others.
We can do this together!
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Making calls…one of my senators is on the list, although my phone has an area code from a state that’s basically a lost cause so who knows if it’ll do any good.
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That actually brings up a question I had. My cell phone has a number from a different state than the one I currently live in. When I call my reps I have been giving my address so they know I live in their state. Does that matter? Does the phone number I’m calling from matter?
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I have this same question. I have read before that we should not call senators who are not ours, because it won’t do any good, we’re not their constituents so they won’t care what we think.
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When I’ve called for my state, they ask for an address or zip code to confirm constituency, so having an OR phone number didn’t matter.
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I have a cautious hope that even if Trump fills RBG’s seat, that there remains an light on the horizon for SCOTUS that reflects the American populace instead of the American minority.
Polling is on the side of not filling the seat. Biden has raised enormous amounts of money since Ginsburg’s death was announced.
Add to the public sentiment the fact that Mitch McConnell is 78. Breyer is 82 this upcoming term, Thomas is 72, and Alito is 70. Looking at actuarial tables, there’s a huge, huge chance that up to three three seats could be filled by a president who takes office in 2020 and serves 8 years.
They threw Proposition 8 at us, and two crotchety old women overthrew DOMA. Don’t ask Don’t Tell was “merciful” for eighteen years before it too was overthrown. If McConnell fills the 9th seat there will be suffering, but that doesn’t mean it’s the end times. What is dark right now, can be the driving force behind a shining light. In a world of perfect equality, RBG wouldn’t be a legend.
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Rebecca Solnit writes:
Before you make plans for what you’ll do if the worst thing happen, it’s good to make plans to prevent the worst thing from happening. And my hat’s off to all you who are already doing it. Because a hell of a lot of you are:
–First of all, by winning this election in a landslide, so everyone who’s doing get-out-the-vote, otherwise supporting robust participation and good candidates, flipping the senate, or working the polls, is my beloved hero right now. Donating is good for those so equipped to do it. A great election action guide is posted in the comments.
–Second of all doing everything you can in every arena that matters (media, yelling at politicians, talking to your red-state relations) to uphold what a free and fair election should look like and how voter fraud is not a real problem but voter suppression is. And that this election will likely not result in an instant call on election night, but require days to check ballots. Asha Rangappa: “We have a process in place for elections. That process will be followed, whether he likes it or not. Every vote will be counted. Due to the high volume of mail-in votes, there will be delay in reaching a final result, which is proof that our process is WORKING.”
–Third by not sowing defeatism and despair, including by pretending you have the gift of prophesy and devoting it to prophecying doom. Or spreading things that might be false because you didn’t check them. Emotions are far more contagious than coronavirus-19, and in more media, and hope is as contagious as fear. But also fear is as contagious as hope, and spreading it is optional.
Hope, as I keep saying, not as optimism that everything will be fine, but as an embrace of the uncertainty about what will happen and a commitment to try to shape it, to bend that arc toward justice. In that uncertainty is room to act. And maybe try to keep a sense of confidence in your own power and capacity to respond as situations arise, and whatever helps you remember that tens of millions share our views about this situation and will rise to the occasion, as needed.
It is indeed anguishing watching this terrible threat to the democratic process and integrity of law, and not knowing how it will all unfold, but we just have to hold fast and persevere, and help each other through it, and remember why it matters. I believe that we can win. I do not believe it will be easy, if we do. It will be because tens of millions strove to make a future that is better than the present, because they were stubborn, because they were committed, because they were willing to try in the face of terrible uncertainty.
As AOC told us last month: “𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠, ‘𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐨 𝐰𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐞’ 𝐰𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐚𝐬𝐤 ‘𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐞 𝐁𝐄 𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐞’ 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐮𝐩 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞. In how we drink our coffee at the bodega each morning.”
Thank you and apologies for preaching.
p.s. Trump is floating balloons about stealing the election, partly because he wants to, and also needs to, to win, but also because it’s demoralizing and sows chaos and keeps us really busy, if we let him run the news cycle and our psyches.
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I needed this today so thank you very much.
Off to find ways to be hope
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Rebecca Solnit is one of my favorite authors ever. I want to be her when I grow up.
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Thank you for this.
I think I am gonna do this, since I wrote all my postcards and have regular stamps but no more postcard stamps: https://votefwd.org/instructions
(This is writing letters to voters)
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Ok I haven’t looked at all the threads (50) for an update, but what are people’s thoughts on the SC nominee? Thx.
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