‘Beginning of the Fight’: Sanders, Schumer Hold Rally Defending Affordable Care Act

NBC News ^ | 2017-01-15 | ALEXANDRA JAFFE, DANNY FREEMAN and TIM STELLOH

[E. Pluribus Unum]

WARREN, Michigan — Sen. Bernie Sanders, while acknowledging that some Americans "don't like" the health care law and continuing to call for universal coverage, pledged before a crowd of thousands to fight Republican efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

"There are differences of opinion about the Affordable Care Act — some like it, some don't like it. But very few Americans believe that we should repeal the ACA without a replacement program to make it better," Sanders, I-Vermont, said at a rally Sunday, one of several dozen gatherings across the country aimed at ginning up public support for the health care law.

"Know we are saying to our Republican colleagues: We will not allow you to throw up to 30 million Americans off of health insurance," he said.

Sanders appeared alongside Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, both of Michigan's Democratic senators and a handful of the state's House members, as well as a number of progressive activists. According to Sanders, Democrats organized 70 rallies Sunday from Maine to California as part of their campaign to defend the law against Republican efforts to dismantle it.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Sure. Why shouldn’t families making $80,000 a year be on Medicaid?

It’s not like its already broke and few doctors will take Medicaid patients...oh wait.

[Tzimisce]

If Obamacare is so great, why aren’t these Senators signing up for it?

[ronnie raygun]

what fight? it will be repealed and they can all go suck

[Fiddlstix]

NOTE TO: Suckie Chuckie Schumer,

[Right-wing Librarian]

The real problem is not being addressed.

Gov’t has NO business being involved in the transactions of payment for service/care between citizens and health care providers AT ALL.

Our only choices this past election were, double down on disaster, or replace it with a more efficient plan. Both choices are unconstitutional.

As long as gov’t has access to citizens’s private health care records/data, that access will be used for nefarious purposes.

Nudge, Push, Shove: Being on medicare, my doctor told me that unless I submit to having mammograms and colonoscopies according to “established” standards, that she would not be my doctor.

According to physicians, they have been told that the GOV’T will be “rating” them on their “compliance rate”, and financially penalizing them if they don’t get their patients to submit to having procedures that the Gov’t mandates.

Further, they will be “publicly shaming” the doctors by publishing doctor compliance rates.

Tell me how this is anything but morally abhorrent and completely tyrannical.
Replacing disasterous Obamacare with efficient TrumpCare is still gov’t intrusion into our private health records and decisions, and is unacceptable in a “free” republic.

[farming pharmer]

For those that don’t know Warren is a UAW Cesspool whose mayor was just caught hot mic’ed saying in effect “tonight l’ve got retard night” because had was having a photo op with some mentally challenged kids that evening. My whole life I have always hated spending even 1 minute in Warren.

Fouts has always been one gigantic piece of sh!t, swirling in the toilet bowl between 8 & 14 mile.

[Graybeard58]

“Know we are saying to our Republican colleagues: We will not allow you to throw up to 30 million Americans off of health insurance,” he said

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How many millions of Americans were perfectly fine with the insurance plan they had but were forced off of it and forced onto obamacare?

[New Jersey Realist]

Let them have their healthcare system and we can have ours, let’s see what happens in a few years!

[kearnyirish2]

I don’t think the unassimilated gibsmedats bought into the ObamaCare lies; at a demonstration in Newark NJ the race-baiting senators (Menendez and T-Bone Booker) addressed a rally of 150 people - and some of them were obviously not locals (they were white - probably paid activists or senate staffers). Truly poor people already had Medicaid; young blacks and Hispanics motivated enough to work obviously saw this as a tax in the same way young whites do.

I believe that is why these protests are combined with anti-Trump agendas; there are very few people of any class or color defending ObamaCare. The individuals I saw addressing it for the press were mentioning STDs and such (pre-existing conditions, which Trump said he would address anyway)...