“Healthcare should be a right”.
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Hundreds of people showed up at a rally in Denver Sunday to urge people to help stop the repeal of the Affordable Care Act. “Or we are gonna just get run over”, said Laurie Hutton-Corr, a volunteer for the Democratic Progressive Club of Fort Myers. “I’m going all around the state and sitting down in different settings to talk to people about health care, and especially about the battle that we’re in right now, the battle about whether the Affordable Care Act should be repealed”.
The rally lasted approximately one hour, with attendees chanting “The people united will never be defeated” and holding signs with phrases like “Health care for ALL” and “ACA, fix it, don’t nix it”.
As Republicans press forward on repealing the Affordable Care Act, U.S. Sen.
I spoke with Senator Gary Peters after the rally, and he had this to say about the human cost of ACA repeal. “I want to show how it affects real people in John Faso’s District”.
Speaking after the forum, Kaine said he took a lot away from the medical students’ questions and that he was relieved to hear concerns about Obamacare’s repeal on access to reproductive health care access and health care in rural areas.
“You’d have in Kentucky for instance 45,000 jobs disappear, nearly half a million people lose health coverage that they now have and you’d lose $4.5 billion of economic activity in the state every year, so there’s a very human cost to repeal without replacement and there’s also an economic cost to the commonwealth”. But Republicans face internal disagreements on how to pay for any replacement and how to protect consumers and insurers during a long phase-in of an alternative.
With Trump headed to an inaugural this week, this is the GOP’s turn to make health coverage better for more Americans – not just cheaper for wealthy people who already can afford it.
“I could lose my health benefits”, Lievano said.
Those plans were non-starters during the 2009-2010 congressional debate on health care.
Thousands gathered outside Faneuil Hall Sunday in support of the Affordable Care Act. Though he has always been an opponent of Obamacre, Dent has said in interviews that he does not favor repealing the law without a detailed replacement. “Both on Health care”, Green said.
“I’ve never done this before in my life”, she said, “but I’m mad, and I’m scared, and I’m anxious about my nieces and nephews and other people who are going be even more impacted than I am”, she said.
“In 2015 and 2016, I dropped it after two months because I realized it was stupid to pay such high premiums and, beyond the one annual “check-up” visit, I have to pay out of pocket for even the most routine visit because who meets such a deductible outside of a catastrophic event?” she said.
“If parents are disenrolled after an ACA repeal, many children will return to being uninsured”, he wrote. It would be a never-ending cost increase cycle with absolutely no guarantee that the sickest and neediest in the pool would get the coverage they need.
Top Republican leaders, including President-elect Trump, have said they hope to rewrite the ACA as soon as possible, but so far they’ve provided little detail.
“If you look at healthcare as a three-legged stool”, she said.
Health care prices went up.
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In answering another question, Pocan pointed out that all 535 members of Congress are required to use Obamacare. The event will focus on the impact of the potential repeal of the Affordable Care Act and Kentucky’s Medicaid expansion.
