TO: Senator Bill Cassidy
FAX: 202-224-9735
TO: Senator Bill Cassidy
FAX: 202-224-9735
FROM: The Patients You Just Voted to Abandon
RE: Final Vote on the One Big Beautiful Bill
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Senator Cassidy,
You’re a doctor. You used to treat patients. You used to stand for healthcare reform grounded in science, ethics, and human dignity.
But your vote to advance the One Big Beautiful Bill? That wasn’t medicine. That was malpractice.
You know exactly what this bill does. You’ve seen the numbers. You’ve read the CBO report. You understand the consequences better than most — because you once swore an oath to do no harm.
And yet you voted to move forward a 940-page legislative disaster that will rip coverage away from over 11 million Americans, slash Medicaid, and punish the very people your state’s public health system is barely managing to keep afloat.
What happened?
What happened to the physician who co-wrote serious healthcare proposals? What happened to the man who claimed to care about Louisiana’s rural clinics and underserved patients? Did he get swallowed by party pressure? Did he forget who he is?
Because right now, all we see is a senator helping Trump rewrite healthcare policy with a sledgehammer and a campaign slogan.
You still have one vote left. One vote that matters.
You can stop this bill. You can say no — not because it’s easy, but because you know it’s right. You can remind the country that being a doctor means more than holding a degree — it means holding a line.
If you vote yes on final passage, you are no longer a physician who became a legislator. You are a legislator who chose to harm patients.
Don’t pretend this is fiscal reform. Don’t claim this is about the deficit — not when this bill adds $3.3 trillion to it. Don’t talk to us about personal responsibility when your vote strips care from babies, seniors, disabled workers, and families hanging by a thread.
Vote no. Do no harm. Or don’t — and live with the fact that your final diagnosis for Louisiana was cruelty.
We’re watching. We’re recording. And we are not forgetting.
Sincerely,
Closer to the Edge
closertotheedge.net
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P.S. Real doctors don’t push party lines. They protect lives.
Closer to the Edge doesn’t do press releases. We do pressure. We name names. We melt fax machines. And we don’t let a single vote like this slip quietly into the record.
Subscribe if you’ve had enough of fake moderates, empty oaths, and senators in lab coats selling you out.
The first professional job I had after college graduation was that of a US Navy nurse. When my hitch was up I became a civilian nurse. Nurses take the Nightingale Pledge written in 1893 including commitments to maintaining professional standards, confidentiality, and dedication to patient welfare. Despite the many professional hats I've worn since those early days, this remains the same: "Once a nurse, always a nurse."
Now doctors - like Senator Cassidy - would probably have sworn the Hippocratic Oath. The phrase "Above all else, do no harm" is most closely associated with Hippocrates, a Greek physician considered the father of Western medicine. While the exact phrase "Above all else, do no harm" isn't found in the original Hippocratic Oath, it is a paraphrase of principles found in his writings, particularly in "Of the Epidemics". The Latin phrase "Primum non nocere", meaning "first, do no harm," is also linked to Hippocrates and his ethical framework for medicine.
You became a Senator but forgot all about being a Medical Doctor. Somebody needs to go back to school, Senator......
It's true what they say: "What goes around comes around."
He sold his soul to big money donors. That's what happened.