Protesters stand against Obamacare repeal
Diabetes. Heart disease. Arthritis. Simon worked with so many patients she wished she had been able to see before illnesses became chronic and ravaged their bodies.
Driven in part by memories of those patients, Simon joined a couple of dozen people Wednesday in
"Unless this new legislation protects those essential benefits, things with health insurance will go back to being as bad as they were before the ACA, or maybe even worse," Simon said at the rally that occurred in front of the new
The
That action would eliminate coverage for an estimated 23 million people across the
On Wednesday health insurer Anthem announced it is withdrawing from the ACA marketplace in
"Obamacare is collapsing," Walker said in a news release. "If we do nothing, more companies will back out and more people will lose coverage."
"In a country with as many resources as ours ... to not insure that people have health care coverage is appalling," Hootman said.
Simon has similar concerns about her daughter, who was diagnosed with skin cancer at age 26. She was able to receive health care coverage after the ACA was adopted but likely would lose it if the ACA is reversed, Simon said.
Simon, Hootman and others expressed concern that details about proposed ACA alterations are taking place behind closed doors instead of at public hearings in each state to solicit people's input.
"They are doing this in secret. It's just plain wrong," former longtime
Republican legislation to repeal the ACA is being peddled as a health care bill, but it has another purpose, said
"This is a tax cut bill, not a health care bill," Smith said amid the roar of machinery being used to build the Marshfield facilities. "And it's about tax cuts for the wealthy."
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