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still_one

(92,395 posts)
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 01:03 AM Feb 2017

WATCH: Rabbi annihilates GOP sitting on their fat taxpayer-funded insurance while destroying ACA

During a CNN town hall Tuesday night, featuring a Hoiuse Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), a rabbi from New Jersey brought down the house with a blistering attack on Republicans who are threatening to gut the Affordable Care Act.

Identified as Eric Yoffie of Westfield, the rabbi explained that he has always been a proponent of providing healthcare for those who can’t afford it.

“I’m a religious leader and spent most of my life working with religious groups to help provide health care to all Americans,” Yoffie began. “Before Obamacare I saw horrors everyday so tragic that they could rip the heart right out of a stone. Now I see the president and Republican politicians sitting on their fat health insurance provided by the taxpayers, declaring their willingness to return tens of million of Americans to a permanent state of anxiety they used to be in when healthcare was not so widely available.”

“Miss Pelosi, I believe that if we deny healthcare to those who need it, we are losing out humanity and we are failing as a nation,” he continued. “What will you and the Democrats do to make sure that this doesn’t happen? Will you fight for us, really fight for us? And will you hold the Trump administration accoutable for their health care policies? And if so, how?”

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/watch-rabbi-annihilates-gop-sitting-on-their-fat-taxpayer-funded-insurance-while-destroying-aca/

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WATCH: Rabbi annihilates GOP sitting on their fat taxpayer-funded insurance while destroying ACA (Original Post) still_one Feb 2017 OP
Thank you, stillone! Cha Feb 2017 #1
What was her response? nikibatts Feb 2017 #2
Here response was what the purpose of the ACA was, to still_one Feb 2017 #4
He is so right thinkingagain Feb 2017 #3

still_one

(92,395 posts)
4. Here response was what the purpose of the ACA was, to
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 01:21 AM
Feb 2017

increase coverage, improve benefits, and try to lower costs

It can be justified on a moral basis and on a cost savings basis, including how it has improved workplace insurance, Medicare, and Medicaid.

The video cut out after that, but if you were looking for a specific strategy how they were going to fight the republicans as far as I can see that wasn't elucidated

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