Health Plan

The Administration has proposed a health plan to benefit the wealthy and take heath coverage away from millions of citizen voters. Why is there no health plan to benefit the middle class? Is there no one in either the Democratic or Republican parties who wants the vote of angry citizen voters?

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  1. UnknownOctober 17, 2017 at 7:29 PM

    I thought there was a bi-partisan effort to reform Obamacare that was making good progress before the GOP derailed it by introducing another failed repeal bill (Graham Cassidy). They need to get back to that!

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