Manatee residents among about 180 at rally against Senate health care bill
With signs like "We Watch. We Learn. We Vote," "Defend Good Existing Health Care!" and "Trump is Fake Health Care," the activists, including many from
"Health care affects everybody," said
Sanders, who lost out to
"I feel health care is a human right," said
"It's not a political party right," Petersen added. "It's not a right that belongs to any one group. It belongs to us all. We have elderly seniors who are counting on their Medicaid."
"Nobody in
A single payer health system
A common theme among protestors was their strong desire, in the face of estimates that millions of Americans could lose their Medicaid and private marketplace coverage if the
"Health care for me is a critical issue for our society," Casale said. "I am a firm believer that we need universal health care. Every other western democracy has it and we don't, and we need to move toward that, and this bill moves us further away from that.
"Obamacare moved us a little toward that," Casale added. "It wasn't perfect, but it at least moved us closer to more people being covered, and I don't want to see us move away from that. This is important to me. My husband is a three-time cancer survivor and had he not had good health care, he would not be with me today. He would have died with the first one. I don't want to see that happen to other families. This is personal for me."
Many in the crowd carried signs that simply read "Call Rubio," and had Senator
"One of the purposes of this rally is to let
The discussion about "Medicare for all" comes about a month after officials in
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