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• Join the Yale Healthcare Coalition Facebook group and Protect Our Patients page

• Share your stories and your patients’ stories

• Sign the petition

• Fill out Fox News poll

• Activate your allies in key states: are you from or do you have friends/family in the following states

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• Call your own and key Senators - using this tool

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• Write Op-Eds

  • Publish LOCALLY and where you think a change needs to be made

  • Topics--when you write one, include a patient’s or personal story

    • Why pre-existing conditions should be covered, and why a mandate is needed to make this feasible

    • Why contraception should be covered - and how research shows us that access to LARCs reduces the rate of unintended pregnancies and abortion

    • The dangers of reintroducing yearly/lifetime caps to health insurance

    • Health insurance marketplaces -- keeping insurance plans transparent, easily accessible, competitive...and subsidized

    • Medicaid expansion -- who wasn’t covered before, who’s covered now, what will happen if that coverage gets taken away

    • Current plans for replacement -- what they are, why they won’t work

    • Block grants and how they would destroy Medicaid and Medicare

    • The Affordable Care Act is a conservative version of health care reform

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• Share articles -- people are on Facebook more these days and the more educated your social networks are about healthcare and what is at stake

  • Sharing well written, well informed articles

    • Why do you need to do this? People still don’t know what the ACA is and why it’s important