Local & national rallies to save ACA

“The analysts who look at this say a repeal with no replacement – even with a delayed implementation date will cause people to lose health insurance, insurers to exit the market in terms of providing coverage and premiums going up for American families”, Sen.

“Know we are saying to our Republican colleagues: We will not allow you to throw up to 30 million Americans off of health insurance”, he said.

About 3 in 10 Pennsylvanians who get buprenorphine to treat addictions use Medicaid to pay for it, according to the Pennsylvania Health Access Network. “We haven’t put it in quite yet but we’re going to be doing it soon”, Trump said during the interview with the paper.

Thousands of people around the country showed support for President Barack Obama’s healthcare law during “Day of Action” rallies on Sunday, .

“It doesn’t matter if you’re Christian, if you’re Jewish if you’re Muslim, if you’re Seikh, if you’re non-theist, if you’re with the LGBT community, cancer doesn’t discriminate”, said Carson.

IBTimes UK contacted the President-elect’s transition team for clarification on how Trump plans to deliver on these statements, but did not receive a response by the time of publication.

But Preisdent-elect Donald Trump has promised a repeal and replace simultaneously. “I’ve seen the positive results of it, and I’m very concerned that this repeal and delay plan is very unsafe”, said Pamela Howard, who is against the repeal.

The administration said the law insured 20 million people who previously weren’t covered.

“We’re going to go to that other white building in Washington. Average people couldn’t afford healthcare; now they can”.

The first time Kate Payne bought health insurance six years ago was through the Affordable Care Act. Scott Wiener and others attended the rally.

The House voted Friday on party lines to instruct committees to finish drafting legislation to repeal the ACA by January 27, following a Senate vote in favor of the same measure Thursday. ABC News reported Senator Bernie Sanders made an appearance at a rally in MI, and Senator Elizabeth Warren spearheaded another in Boston.

As Republicans voted to gut the ACA, they also shot down several amendments introduced by Democrats that would have kept some basic safeguards in place to protect those who would be left most vulnerable by repealing portions of the ACA. “Nothing is constant. We live in a world of change”, Caliri said.

Republicans pushed through a budget resolution this past week by setting up a framework for repealing the Health care law.

With two part-time jobs, she wasn’t offered health care through work, she said.