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Fearing that Donald Trump will make good on his promise to end the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare, thousands of San Franciscans demonstrated at Civic Center on Jan. 15, their chants echoing from the steps of City Hall.<\/p>\n
Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, accompanied by local politicians, doctors and advocates, vocalized her dedication to preserve the (ACA) with her movement called #OurFirstStand.<\/p>\n
\u201cDonald Trump and the Republicans in congress want to tear down the ACA,\u201d Pelosi said. \u201cThat plan is to make America sick again.\u201d<\/p>\n
Established March 23, 2010, the ACA was passed with the goal of extending affordable health insurance to people across the financial spectrum.<\/p>\n
Senate Republicans took their first major step towards repealing the ACA on Jan. 12 when they\u00a0 <\/span>approved, via a 51 to 48 vote, a budget blueprint that would allow them to gut funding for the ACA. Though Senate Democrats objected and even protested on the Senate floor, their efforts were futile.<\/p>\n \u201cSadly, we find ourselves in a place we need to worry about whether our lowest income residents will have insurance,\u201d San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee said. \u201cThe ACA has bettered the lives for too many Americans to be thrown out.\u201d<\/p>\n One by one, doctors, health advocates and even some San Francisco supervisors stepped up to the microphone to justify how important the ACA is to many Americans.<\/p>\n Kathy Forte, a mother, spoke of how the ACA helped her family during a time of crisis. She held a small, framed portrait of her 24-year-old son, Tom, who suffered a stroke and had to be hospitalized for four days in August of 2016.<\/p>\n \u201cIf the ACA is repealed, my son Tom and thousands of other children who are covered by their parents in the Bay Area, will lose these benefits,\u201d Forte said through tears.<\/p>\n Many in the audience nodded their heads and murmured in agreement, while others held signs that read, \u201cHealth care is a human right.\u201d<\/p>\n The ACA, among other things, allowed young adults to remain on their parents health insurance until the age of 26.<\/p>\n \u201cIf it was repealed, many people who are on their family\u2019s healthcare plans will be cut off,\u201d said Tim Killikelly, president of the AFT 2121 teacher\u2019s union at City College of San Francisco. \u201cAnd that puts a lot of younger people in a very vulnerable position.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [su_carousel source=”media: 32656,32657,32658,32659″ width=”800″ height=”540″ responsive=”no” items=”1″] Fearing that Donald Trump will make good on his promise to end the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare, thousands of San Franciscans demonstrated at Civic Center on Jan. 15, their chants echoing from the steps of City Hall. Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, accompanied by local politicians, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":32657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3929],"tags":[12487,11993,9885,11995],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-32655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","tag-aca-en","tag-affordable-care-act-en","tag-nancy-pelosi-en","tag-obamacare-en","entry"],"yoast_head":"\n