SOL27: Postcards to the Government

            After Trump was elected, postcard parties were held around the country for people to send postcards either to the president or members of his Cabinet expressing their opinions about various actions or inactions being taken. I kept this up for the rest of 2017 and into 2018, but had slacked off a bit. But seeing the news today that Mick Mulvaney, head of the Office of Budget and Management and acting chief of staff, is the force behind the administration’s move to ask the courts to declare the whole Affordable Care Act unconstitutional galvanized me. Here’s my postcard to him today:

Dear Mr. Mulvaney,

What exactly do you have against people with pre-existing conditions getting health insurance? Why are you so eager to take away health insurance from people who’ve gotten it through Obamacare, when they could not afford it before? Do you seriously think that suddenly insurance companies will stop denying insurance to people who have had cancer in the past, or some other disease the company doesn’t want to cover? You are heartless.

      No doubt he’ll never see this message, but underlings in the mailroom will, and possibly it will get to someone in Mulvaney’s office. It might make a few people stop and think about what is going on.

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