Thousands gather to rally support for Affordable Care Act

The prospect of Obamacare’s repeal by the Republican-controlled Congress and the incoming Trump Administration drew hundreds of people to rallies across the state on Sunday, where union leaders and Democratic elected officials vowed to fight to preserve the law that has provided coverage to hundreds of thousands of people in New Jersey. 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.

“America shouldn’t be about how much money you have or what job you have to get healthcare”, Donnelly said.

“Repealing the ACA without a replacement in place will affect every American, not just those enrolled in the exchanges and Medicaid”, DeGette said in a press release sent to Denver7. Republicans in Congress began the process late last week by passing a budget resolution that enables the repeal legislation to pass with a simple majority in the Senate, thus avoiding a filibuster by Senate Democrats.

“Well it’s frightening, it’s frightening”, said physical therapist Marva Sletten.

People wait for the start of a health care rally in Warren, Michigan, north of Detroit, on Sunday.

“People who have had accidents, people that have neurological conditions, strokes, whatever it may be, what’s going to happen to those people?” asked Terry Sletten. “The health insurance industry treats us like livestock”. Murray said Saturday. “They’re not putting anything forward”.

“I’m going to get really sick and my life will be at risk”, said Bible, an online antique dealer.

“I think that it’s going to take civil disobedience to turn this around because they have the votes in both the Senate and the House, and the president”, he said. Massive cuts could also be made to Medicaid and Planned Parenthood could be defunded.

“Our job today is to defend the Affordable Care Act”, Sanders said.

“Is it something that we should be doing?”

“If the optimism that led to it had carried through and people actually supported it in the way that they could have, it would have worked better”, he said. That’s why we’re here, outside on a cold Sunday morning in MI, and we got thousands of people to come out. “I don’t care if it is a red state or a blue state, we are all a united state”.

We reached out to local Republicans for reaction to Sunday’s rallies.

“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.

Joan Alker, a research professor at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy, told us that most of that 3.4 million are children. The bill passed on a party-line vote. “Working people, middle class families will lose health care while the rich gain”.

“Everyone agrees that Obamacare is a disaster”. According to Sheila Burke, Dole’s Chief of Staff in 1993, “You would find a great deal of similarity to provisions in the Affordable Care Act”. However, Trump has not fully explained how he plans to do it. It will reject having the government make healthcare decisions.