Thousands of nuns sign anti-repeal letter. Nuns will be visiting Catholic Senators in Congress today
to bring their concerns and ask that the bill not even be opened for debate.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/07/23/thousands-nuns-urge-senators-vote-against-obamacare-repeal/502885001/
Thousands of American nuns have signed a letter to senators asking them to reject the Republican plan to bring up a health care bill this week that they say is "immoral and contrary to the teachings of our Catholic faith."
The Catholic sisters — led by Sister Simone Campbell who was a vocal advocate for passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010 — will deliver their letter Monday and plan to personally visit key Catholic senators to ask them to oppose the health care bill.
The letter, organized by NETWORK, a Catholic social justice lobby and signed by more than 7,000 U.S. sisters, asks senators to vote against any motion to bring up "any bill that would repeal the ACA and cut Medicaid."
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said he plans to bring a health care bill to the floor this week, but it is not clear which one. The first hurdle McConnell will face is a procedural vote to bring up the legislation. Democrats are refusing en mass to support any ACA repeal bill, so McConnell will need 50 Republican votes on the procedural motion. Several Republican senators have voiced opposition to various repeal plans, including Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska and Susan Collins, R-Maine, both Catholics.