Long story short: tell Anthem BCBS to pay for Sara Flores’s $13,000-plus surprise medical bill, tell big corporations to stop using forced prison labor to make their products, and tell our government to ensure that all new federally-backed homes meet modern energy efficiency standards. Use the email/petition tools in the following paragraphs to communicate your will.
Missouri Jobs With Justice helps you tell Anthem BCBS to pay for Sara Flores’s medical care. She planned to have her baby at home, but then decided (prudently, she thought!) to have her baby at a medical center in Anthem's network in case of complications – and then, when her baby had complications and needed intensive care, Anthem told her that those providers were not, in fact, in her network, and slammed her with a $13,000-plus surprise bill! And right-wingers wonder why people don’t just pop out dozens of kids anymore! If you see a bankster’s gnarled hand behind this, shifting providers out of networks like the world’s just one big shell game, I wouldn’t blame you. So once again we wield the Big Stick of Bad PR.
Civic Shout helps you tell big corporations to stop using forced prison labor to make their products. Brook no if-you-can’t-do-the-time-don’t-do-the-crime silliness from anyone, because we’re supposed to be rehabilitating prisoners, not forcing them into slavery. Don’t brook any retorts that they learn skills while they’re in jail, because which fascist Southern state’s educational curriculum does that sound like? (It’s Florida. I’m talking about Florida.) Also too, these big corporations could be paying people real money to do these jobs. And no using prison slave labor doesn’t result in cheaper products! It results in richer executives! That’s all it results in, or else we wouldn’t have had such high inflation these past few years.
Finally, Americans for Financial Reform helps you tell our Federal Housing Finance Agency (or FHFA) to require all new homes backed by FHFA mortgages to meet modern energy efficiency standards. Because when you take the taxpayer’s money, you have to follow the taxpayer’s rules, and there just aren’t enough taxpayers who oppose higher energy efficiency standards. Sadly, there’s not exactly a shortage of people who bellow like a banshee at the news of any new regulation, but they’re far from the majority of Americans, loud and obnoxious though they may be. Some right-wingers have such a hard-on for tossing energy efficiency regulations, but seriously, folks, there are ways to get rid of a hard-on that don’t involve hurting people.
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