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Showing Original Post only (View all)Sanders Rallies Against GOP Health Care Plan at Town Hall [View all]
Following a Town Hall meeting in one of West Virginia's poorest counties Vermont U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders says the Senate can defeat the House Republican proposal to replace the Affordable Care Act.March 12, 2017, at 10:21 p.m.
[font color="gray"]U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders talks to some of the 250 people who turned out for a Town Hall meeting about rural poverty in Welch, W.Va., Sunday, March 12, 2017. Following the Town Hall meeting in one of West Virginia's poorest counties Vermont U.S. Sen. Sanders says the Senate can defeat the House Republican proposal to replace the Affordable Care Act with a version he says would provide enormous tax breaks to the wealthiest Americans. (AP Photo/S.M. Christman) THE ASSOCIATED PRESS[/font]
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WELCH, W.Va. (AP) Following a Town Hall meeting in one of West Virginia's poorest counties U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders said Sunday that the Senate can defeat the House Republican proposal to replace the Affordable Care Act with a version he said would provide enormous tax breaks to the wealthiest Americans.
The former Democratic presidential candidate from Vermont received a standing ovation immediately from about 250 people in a high school auditorium in McDowell County, and his call for universal health care as a right for all Americans was greeted with loud applause.
The Republican proposal to replace the Affordable Care Act, which added health care coverage to 20 million people, would throw five to 10 million people off coverage including thousands of West Virginians, Sanders said. At the same time, it would provide an estimated $275 billion in tax breaks for the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans over a decade, he said.
"Instead of giving tax breaks to billionaires, I think we need to ask them to pay their fair share," Sanders said. The Republican-controlled Congress doesn't want any scrutiny or hearings on the House proposal, which the American Medical Association, American Hospital Association and AARP all oppose, he said.
He told The Associated Press afterward that West Virginia's Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin will join the vote against the substitute, adding they need Republican Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, who has raised concerns about the House plan's effect on expanded Medicaid, which her state has, to join them.
"She can be the key vote," he said. "I think what we've got to do now is defeat it in the Senate and then sit down and determine how we improve the Affordable Care Act and not simply repeal it and make it worse."
Sanders said rural areas all over the U.S have similar issues, have been neglected and need good cell service, broadband internet access and roads and bridges. He advocated a $1 trillion infrastructure program he said would create many jobs.
The meeting hosted by MSNBC to examine the needs of rural America will be broadcast Monday evening.
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/west-virginia/articles/2017-03-12/sanders-rallies-against-gop-health-care-plan-at-town-hall
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Here's a link to a thread of snapshots of that town hall. Bernie is hosting two town halls
Donkees
Mar 2017
#3
A few years go when I was driving through a village in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom
democrank
Mar 2017
#4
You have to win a primary first...and the jury is still out as far as I am concerned.
Demsrule86
Mar 2017
#46
If I was allowed to talk about how stupid it is to vote 3rd party in a 2 party system, I would.
Eliot Rosewater
Mar 2017
#78
You are allowed to say it is stupid to vote third party in a two party system.
Demsrule86
Mar 2017
#148
I'm missing something. Isn't the Ryan bill about healthcare? Isn't it going to kill people? How is
JCanete
Mar 2017
#159
I didn't ask about the primary. Do you know how this area voted during the general election?
NurseJackie
Mar 2017
#14
For the record, trump got 93% of the votes in the republican primary, Sanders only 55%...
George II
Mar 2017
#23
Thank you for the info. Having accurate numbers helps me to understand things better...
NurseJackie
Mar 2017
#28
I may be wrong but I don't think he held any pro-Clinton rallies in West Virginia...
George II
Mar 2017
#42
"In fact he held very few rallies for her at all anywhere." WOW! Well, that's disappointing ...
NurseJackie
Mar 2017
#56
With regard to the General Election must it be one or the other? Why not both?
NurseJackie
Mar 2017
#64
I apologize if I was wrong in believing that you already knew the answers to the questions
Tom Rinaldo
Mar 2017
#74
His first appearance for Clinton was about a week after Labor Day. Convention adjourned July 28.
George II
Mar 2017
#60
I dont know why anyone would "fight about the primary" either, makes no sense.
Eliot Rosewater
Mar 2017
#80
If you'd be kind enough to provide a link, I'd like to verify those numbers please. And...
NurseJackie
Mar 2017
#19
And those who voted for Bernie said they had no intention of voting for him in the General...
Demsrule86
Mar 2017
#49
Why does that make a difference? Does the answer change depending on my motivation for knowledge?
NurseJackie
Mar 2017
#21
And...So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, adieu (That didn't last very long.)
NurseJackie
Mar 2017
#168
He's actually standing up for what they allegedly stand for, unlike that turncoat Manchin.
alarimer
Mar 2017
#84
Your irrelevant non-sequiter certainly illustrates the depth of your context.
LanternWaste
Mar 2017
#79
Is he really the best man for this job? I wish he'd do more actual outreach ...
NurseJackie
Mar 2017
#41
Lots of his activities have been posted in the Bernie group here on this site.
bekkilyn
Mar 2017
#62
So either there are no progressives in the party who may leave if nothing changes
bekkilyn
Mar 2017
#77
Like-minded, reliable Democrats are less than 29% of the population, as of 2015
bekkilyn
Mar 2017
#111
So under the right conditions, you'd be willing to vote for the Republican? Right?
NurseJackie
Mar 2017
#129
This is so trumpian, smacks of "trump tower was wiretapped by Obama", now YOU prove it wasn't!!
George II
Mar 2017
#113
You mentioned "Democratic party corruption" and then called on someone to disprove it.
George II
Mar 2017
#124
Wait, where would they go? Do they not know this is a 2 party system and if you vote
Eliot Rosewater
Mar 2017
#82
So you are saying if there is a Dem who isnt perfect, so to speak, and a con
Eliot Rosewater
Mar 2017
#96
Sigh, so I was right, there are people out there who simply dont understand
Eliot Rosewater
Mar 2017
#99
I sincerely want to be allowed to discuss here how a 2 party system works.
Eliot Rosewater
Mar 2017
#105
So the only reason you're a "democrat" now is because there isn't a 3rd party that you like?
George II
Mar 2017
#120
Why? Many do this, but I'm not certain what purpose it serves, other than vanity.
NurseJackie
Mar 2017
#109
Well, that tells me that you're not really serious about change or improving the party.
NurseJackie
Mar 2017
#136
Coal is not coming back. The "FDR" version of our party is not coming back. It's a different world.
NurseJackie
Mar 2017
#146
Then what is the party going to do to convince unconvinced people to vote Democratic?
bekkilyn
Mar 2017
#132
Well some "democrats" and their standardbearer don't appear to be doing much to quell the civil war.
George II
Mar 2017
#139
Why should they? I'm assuming you're referring to long-term Democrats. It's their party....
George II
Mar 2017
#147
The garbage about the "corrupt Democratic party", and then suggesting that is the reason to start
still_one
Mar 2017
#106
And at just about every one of those appearances he criticizes the Democratic Party.
George II
Mar 2017
#67
Is it fair (or truthful) to characterize those "appearances" as being actual "outreach"?
NurseJackie
Mar 2017
#85
Huh? What? Who's he trying to bring in to the Democratic Party by "trashing" the party?
NurseJackie
Mar 2017
#110
The two things he's doing are completely opposed to each other. Trashing the party...
NurseJackie
Mar 2017
#142
You know... when I invite people to a party at my house, I don't trash my place beforehand.
NurseJackie
Mar 2017
#160
How about the voter who has NO "filters", NO pre-conceived notions? What's their motivation...
NurseJackie
Mar 2017
#162
Ok...I see many Vermont and TV and of course the old town hall that was cancelled in WVA and the new
Demsrule86
Mar 2017
#152
During the General Election, did this many West Virginians come out to see Bernie...
NurseJackie
Mar 2017
#17
What kind of turn-out in West Virginia did Bernie get when he campaigned there for Hillary?
NurseJackie
Mar 2017
#34
trump got 68% of the votes in West Virginia. So you're saying that Sanders...
George II
Mar 2017
#102
I don't know the answer to that, though I agree the answer would be of interest
Tom Rinaldo
Mar 2017
#43