NRLN Action Alert - Stop the Effort to Privatize Medicare

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Old 12-05-2016, 10:53 PM
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Exclamation NRLN Action Alert - Stop the Effort to Privatize Medicare

Below is the text of a letter I received from NRLN, please take action, and share with every one you know.

Click To View Documents: Facebook Action Alert Stop the Effort to Privatize Medicare.pdf (594KB);
NRLN Action Alert
Stop the Effort to Privatize Medicare

Click here to access the NRLN Action Alert to Stop Effort to Privatize Medicare.

For years, the NRLN has opposed the efforts of Rep. Paul Ryan (WI-01), now the Speaker of the House, to replace Medicare with a voucher plan (premium support) for seniors to use to purchase their health care coverage from private insurance companies. If Rep. Tom Price (GA-06), President-elect Donald Trumps nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services, is confirmed by the Senate, Speaker Ryan will have a powerful partner. Representative Price has long supported privatizing Medicare with taxpayer dollars going to insurance companies who make big contributions to members of Congress. Rep. Kevin Brady (TX-08), Chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee, has pledged to support the proposed changes to Medicare.

Speaker Ryan has received $845,239 in campaign and leadership PAC (Political Action Committee) contributions from the insurance industry during the 2015 and 2016 election cycle, according to OpenSecrets.Org, the Center for Responsive Politics. Rep, Price, currently Chairman of the House Budget Committee, has received $184,600, and Rep. Brady has received $397,500 in campaign and leadership PAC contributions from the insurance industry during the same period. Could their desire to privatize Medicare be overly influenced by the big contributions they receive from the insurance industry?

You are the NRLN. If Medicare is important to you as part of the NRLN, then stand with the other members to tell Congress not to support turning Medicare over to insurance companies that will certainly lead to seniors paying more for health care. Please email the NRLNs sample letter to your Representative and Senators to urge them to prevent the privatization of Medicare.

Bill Kadereit, President Bob Martina, Vice President Grassroots
National Retiree Legislative Network National Retiree Legislative Network

Here are the easy steps to follow:
1. If the Click here link in the first paragraph above doesnt work for you, go to: NATIONAL RETIREES LEGISLATIVE NETWORK HOME PAGE to access the NRLNs sample letters.. The NRLN Action Network system will identify for you the letter to be sent to your U.S. Representative and your two U.S. Senators. If you have a problem with this link, go to NATIONAL RETIREES LEGISLATIVE NETWORK HOME PAGE and click on the Take Action Now near the top of the NRLN website home page.
2. When you have accessed the NRLN sample letters, to the left of the letters are windows to type in your contact information required by members of Congress so they know they are receiving an email from a constituent. If you have sent previous NRLN emails to your members of Congress your contact information may be automatically displayed.
3. Personalize the letters by editing in your own comments.
4. Click on the "Preview" button and the letters addressed to your Representative and two Senators will appear. Their names will be automatically added in the letters greeting. Check to make sure the letters to your members of Congress appear correct and then click "Send".

Please consider using these additional tools:
1. After you have emailed your letter to your members of Congress, you will have the option to select a number of publications from a news media list to send a message to the editor. With regard to the present Action Alert, the composed message asks the editors to write an editorial to urge members of Congress not to support the premium support plan for Medicare.
2. You have the option, if you have a Facebook page, to click on a Facebook icon to post a link to the NRLN's Action Alert on your Facebook page. After you click on the Facebook icon the link to the Action Alert will appear and the option to "Write Something" is proved. You may want to type in something like Email the NRLN's sample letter to your members of Congress. Click the "Share" icon to post your comment and the Action Alert link.
3. You also have the option, if you have a Facebook account, to post the NRLNs message on your Representatives or Senators Facebook page. Most members of Congress have a Facebook page. Click on the attachment to this email for the steps to follow to post on your legislators Facebook page.
4. Also after emailing your letter there is an option to post to your Twitter account if you have one. Scroll down to "Send a Tweet" and click on the "Submit" buttons to send the short message to each of your members of Congress.
5. Scroll down further to "Tell a Friend" and you will have the option to quickly email a message to your friends to ask them to access the NRLN Action Alert. Simply type or paste in their email addresses into a window.
6. Further down the webpage is "Share on your Web Site". That is only for the use of Webmasters.


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Below is the text of a letter I received from NRLN, please take action, and share with every one you know.

Click To View Documents: Facebook Action Alert Stop the Effort to Privatize Medicare.pdf (594KB);
NRLN Action Alert
Stop the Effort to Privatize Medicare

Click here to access the NRLN Action Alert to Stop Effort to Privatize Medicare.

For years, the NRLN has opposed the efforts of Rep. Paul Ryan (WI-01), now the Speaker of the House, to replace Medicare with a voucher plan (premium support) for seniors to use to purchase their health care coverage from private insurance companies. If Rep. Tom Price (GA-06), President-elect Donald Trumps nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services, is confirmed by the Senate, Speaker Ryan will have a powerful partner. Representative Price has long supported privatizing Medicare with taxpayer dollars going to insurance companies who make big contributions to members of Congress. Rep. Kevin Brady (TX-08), Chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee, has pledged to support the proposed changes to Medicare.

Speaker Ryan has received $845,239 in campaign and leadership PAC (Political Action Committee) contributions from the insurance industry during the 2015 and 2016 election cycle, according to OpenSecrets.Org, the Center for Responsive Politics. Rep, Price, currently Chairman of the House Budget Committee, has received $184,600, and Rep. Brady has received $397,500 in campaign and leadership PAC contributions from the insurance industry during the same period. Could their desire to privatize Medicare be overly influenced by the big contributions they receive from the insurance industry?

You are the NRLN. If Medicare is important to you as part of the NRLN, then stand with the other members to tell Congress not to support turning Medicare over to insurance companies that will certainly lead to seniors paying more for health care. Please email the NRLNs sample letter to your Representative and Senators to urge them to prevent the privatization of Medicare.

Bill Kadereit, President Bob Martina, Vice President Grassroots
National Retiree Legislative Network National Retiree Legislative Network

Here are the easy steps to follow:
1.If the Click here link in the first paragraph above doesnt work for you, go to: NATIONAL RETIREES LEGISLATIVE NETWORK HOME PAGE to access the NRLNs sample letters.. The NRLN Action Network system will identify for you the letter to be sent to your U.S. Representative and your two U.S. Senators. If you have a problem with this link, go to NATIONAL RETIREES LEGISLATIVE NETWORK HOME PAGE and click on the Take Action Now near the top of the NRLN website home page.
2.When you have accessed the NRLN sample letters, to the left of the letters are windows to type in your contact information required by members of Congress so they know they are receiving an email from a constituent. If you have sent previous NRLN emails to your members of Congress your contact information may be automatically displayed.
3.Personalize the letters by editing in your own comments.
4.Click on the "Preview" button and the letters addressed to your Representative and two Senators will appear. Their names will be automatically added in the letters greeting. Check to make sure the letters to your members of Congress appear correct and then click "Send".

Please consider using these additional tools:
1.After you have emailed your letter to your members of Congress, you will have the option to select a number of publications from a news media list to send a message to the editor. With regard to the present Action Alert, the composed message asks the editors to write an editorial to urge members of Congress not to support the premium support plan for Medicare.
2.You have the option, if you have a Facebook page, to click on a Facebook icon to post a link to the NRLN's Action Alert on your Facebook page. After you click on the Facebook icon the link to the Action Alert will appear and the option to "Write Something" is proved. You may want to type in something like Email the NRLN's sample letter to your members of Congress. Click the "Share" icon to post your comment and the Action Alert link.
3.You also have the option, if you have a Facebook account, to post the NRLNs message on your Representatives or Senators Facebook page. Most members of Congress have a Facebook page. Click on the attachment to this email for the steps to follow to post on your legislators Facebook page.
4.Also after emailing your letter there is an option to post to your Twitter account if you have one. Scroll down to "Send a Tweet" and click on the "Submit" buttons to send the short message to each of your members of Congress.
5.Scroll down further to "Tell a Friend" and you will have the option to quickly email a message to your friends to ask them to access the NRLN Action Alert. Simply type or paste in their email addresses into a window.
6.Further down the webpage is "Share on your Web Site". That is only for the use of Webmasters.


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I was reading about this today and it appears the privatization effort is for those currently under the age of 55 (which includes me). Since the Republicans are now in charge, I anticipate these changes moving forward rather quickly. These are the consequences of your vote. I hope you take the time to express your opinion to your Congressmen and women. This will definitely be something that affects your children ( if not you).

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Old 12-06-2016, 08:14 AM
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Old 12-06-2016, 10:17 AM
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Medicare is broken. We all know Medicare, in its current configuration is unsustainable. To keep it "as is" is foolish, and selfish for future generations. It has to change, and we seniors need to step up to the plate and pay more of our costs of health care. If it means we don't eat out 5 times a week, so be it. If it means we can't afford cruises every year, that's too bad. Most of us will get back much more than we paid into SS and medicare. Your children and grandchildren are paying the difference.
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Old 12-09-2016, 12:16 PM
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NOT! NRLN is mostly about giveaway program legislation. There is no inherent right for any citizen to have medical costs paid by the government. Yet, given that "the genie is out of the bottle", we need to come up with common sense solutions to limit the skyrocketing cost of Medicare. Any attempt to do so is met with senseless opposition from NLRN and others who are against eliminating/reducing giveaways. The Paul Ryan proposal makes sense as well as raising the minimum age and higher copays. Hopefully the next 4 yrs. can minimize the effectiveness of socialist groups such as NLRN.
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