Forget "Repeal & Replace"

Since Mitch refuses to pull the bill and still insists on a vote in the Senate, here's one more email to Portman.
https://www.portman.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/contact-form
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Hi Rob.  It's me again, your 62-year-old constituent with Stage 4 cancer being kept alive by Obamacare.

It should be abundantly clear to you that while the GOP's constant refrain of "repeal and replace" may have once had some value as a campaign slogan, it was always a stupid "promise" and is utterly useless in its practical application.  Tens of millions of Americans losing healthcare, discriminatory price hikes on the sick and elderly, huge tax breaks for the insurance, pharma, and medical device industries?  C'mon.  There is no political capital to be gained by passing any version of the BCRA.  There is only political suicide.  You'll just wind up looking like a bunch of ignorant, cruel jerks.

You owe absolutely nothing to that crazy asshole in the Oval Office.  Forget him, and remember what your colleague Shelley Moore Capito said -- you didn't come here to hurt people.  The ACA and its Medicaid expansion doesn't hurt people, it helps people.  The ACA is established law, it's good law, it's popular law, and you'll have hell to pay if you take it away.

So don't.  Forget repeal and replace.  Keep the ACA and do everything you can to strengthen and improve it by stabilizing its pricing and participation.

Vote NO on the BCRA!
#KillTheBill