{"id":315365,"date":"2017-07-01T09:32:49","date_gmt":"2017-07-01T08:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/disability-rights-activist-arrested-for-protesting-trumpcare-we-wont-be-silent-while-you-kill-us\/"},"modified":"2017-07-01T09:32:49","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T08:32:49","slug":"disability-rights-activist-arrested-for-protesting-trumpcare-we-wont-be-silent-while-you-kill-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/disability-rights-activist-arrested-for-protesting-trumpcare-we-wont-be-silent-while-you-kill-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Disability Rights Activist Arrested for Protesting Trumpcare: We Won&#039;t Be Silent While You Kill Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>With the deeply unpopular health care plan having failed to come to a vote before the Senate recessed for the holidays, demonstrators across the country flooded the offices of Republicans in what they&#8217;re calling a &#8220;last stand&#8221; to prevent a repeal of the Affordable Care Act. We speak with disability rights attorney Stephanie Woodward, who was shown in a viral video being pulled out of her wheelchair and arrested for protesting outside Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TRANSCRIPT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>AMY\u00a0GOODMAN:\u00a0<\/strong>President Trump urged the Republican Congress today to repeal the Affordable Care Act, even as senators recessed for the holidays early yesterday, with no plans in sight to vote on a replacement healthcare bill. In a tweet early this morning, President Trump tweeted, &#8220;If Republican Senators are unable to pass what they are working on now, they should immediately\u00a0REPEAL, and then\u00a0REPLACE\u00a0at a later date!&#8221; unquote. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell called off a planned vote on the Senate healthcare bill after some members of his party balked over a Congressional Budget Office report that found it would add 22 million Americans to the ranks of the uninsured. Other Republicans said they&#8217;d oppose the Senate bill because it doesn&#8217;t go far enough.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, support for a nationwide single-payer healthcare system is growing. Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren became the latest politician to back single payer. In an interview with\u00a0The Wall Street Journal\u00a0Tuesday, Warren said, quote, &#8220;President Obama tried to move us forward with health-care coverage by using a conservative model that came from one of the conservative think tanks that had been advanced by a Republican governor in Massachusetts. Now it&#8217;s time for the next step. And the next step is single payer,&#8221; she said. Billionaire investor Warren Buffett also came out in favor of single payer this week, saying, quote, &#8220;We are such a rich country. In a sense, we can afford to do it,&#8221; unquote. A recent poll by the Pew&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/news\/item\/41121-disability-rights-activist-arrested-for-protesting-trumpcare-we-won-t-be-silent-while-you-kill-us\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the deeply unpopular health care plan having failed to come to a vote before the Senate recessed for the holidays, demonstrators across the country flooded the offices of Republicans in what they&#8217;re calling a &#8220;last stand&#8221; to prevent a repeal of the Affordable Care Act. We speak with disability rights attorney Stephanie Woodward, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-315365","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}