Thread by @LittleLobbyists

Friends, today's developments with regard to our health care made crystal clear #WhatsAtStake, the need to #StopKavanaugh, and the need to be a #HealthCareVoter this November.

Here's a quick explainer thread on what happened, and where we go from here. (1/)

In Texas today, a judge heard arguments on the lawsuit brought by several GOP State AGs and the Trump Administration to declare the #ACA, including #PreExistingConditions protections, unconstitutional. That judge seemed prepared to do just that. (2/)

modernhealthcare.com/article/201809…

If that one judge rules to strike down #PreExistingConditions protections, millions of Americans - including those of us with medically complex kids - would be at risk of losing health care.

Such a decision would be appealed, and could ultimately land at the Supreme Court. (3/)

And today in his Supreme Court confirmation hearing, #Kavanaugh would not promise that he would uphold #PreExistingConditions protections if the Texas case came to him. (4/)

https://twitter.com/amarimow/status/1037399854258049024?s=19

This is on top of previous statements that #Kavanaugh has made questioning the legality of the #ACA and the health care assurances it provides to 130 million Americans. (5/)

usatoday.com/story/opinion/…

In short: today made clear that the risk to the ACA's #PreExistingConditions protections is very real, and that elimination of those protections could come to pass very soon. (6/)

GOP Senators clearly see the political risk this causes their party, which is why they've rushed to draft a bill they *claim* will protect #PreExistingConditions, but actually is *yet another* attack on current protections in the law. (7/)

vox.com/platform/amp/p…

Here's the important part: (8/)

But none of this - a Justice Kavanaugh, killing the ACA, Members of Congress who vote to take health care away from their constituents - *none* of it is a foregone conclusion.

They said ACA repeal was a sure thing last summer. Then this happened: (9/)

https://twitter.com/emmaroller/status/890807322951299072?s=19

We shouldn't have to fight this hard for our health care. But we need to. Today, and every day until November 6.

- RT/share this thread
- Call your Senators everyday and tell them to #StopKavanaugh. 202-224-3121.
- Pledge to be a #HealthCareVoter in November.

Let's go. (10/10)