Protesters stage overnight sit-in at Sen. Gardners office over health care bill
Source: KDVR FOX 31
A group of protesters spent the night in the lobby of Sen. Cory Gardners office in Denver on Tuesday.
Disability advocates from a group called ADAPT organized a protest beginning at 9 a.m. Tuesday outside the senators office.
They want Gardner to vote against the proposed federal health care bill, saying they believe it will cut Medicaid benefits to individuals who need them to survive independently.
They depend on these services to be able to live in the community independently, and have jobs and be productive members of society, go to school. Families do all the things that we get to do and we dont have to fight like this, Hope Morris said.
Read more: http://kdvr.com/2017/06/27/protesters-stage-overnight-sit-in-at-sen-gardners-office-over-healthcare-bill/
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(1,201 posts)health care ins...It's about tax cuts. To pay for Medicaid expansion and premium subsidies under the ACA taxes on capital gains were increased from 20% to 23.9% and only multimillionaires pay capital gains taxes. Income taxes are 39% but these greedy goobers feel cheated paying this additional 3.
9% increase even though they pay 19% less already. They want their tax cuts back dated to 12/31/16 and want no part in paying for ins for the poor. So Trump care is taking money from the poor and giving it back to their greedy donors who already pay 19% less in taxes. Republicans don't care about health care only tax cuts for the 400 richest families