[nfb-talk] Fwd: {Single Payer} Disabled protesters dragged from McConnell's office! So where our blind organizations?

[Karen Rose]

Question two moderators – is this topic political or is it directly connected to blindness?

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> On Jun 26, 2017, at 3:21 PM, Judy Jones via nfb-talk <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> I would really be careful of the sources here, plus, I thought these lists were not for political use.
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> Judy
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> From: nfb-talk [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jack Heim via nfb-talk
> Sent: Monday, June 26, 2017 9:10 AM
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> Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Fwd: {Single Payer} Disabled protesters dragged from McConnell's office! So where our blind organizations?
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> Well, the immediate problem is that Republicans are about to pass a health care bill that would be far worse. When he was a candidate, Donald Trump made a lot of promises about replacing the ACA with something better but that's just not what is about to happen. 
> Republicans are on the verge of stripping nearly a trillion dollars from Medicaid and taking away health care from 23 million Americans. And don't kid yourself, it might very well pass. Any suggestion that it has no chance is pure fiction. It's scary close.
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>> On 06/26/2017 01:00 AM, Loren Wakefield via nfb-talk wrote:
>> And like it or not, Obamacare is headed for total collapse.  By next year, Iowa will not have a single company in the program.  And Iowa is not the only state that is facing this looming disaster with obabamcare.
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>> Loren
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>> From: nfb-talk [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Steve 
>> Jacobson via nfb-talk
>> Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2017 9:37 PM
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>> Cc: Steve Jacobson
>> Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Fwd: {Single Payer} Disabled protesters dragged from McConnell's office! So where our blind organizations?
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>> Wow, I really wonder where you read that I didn't think we had anything to worry about.  I think we do.  I also said that I thought it was a good thing that people called attention to this bill.  And yes, believe it or not, I was writing about the senate bill, and part of my point was that some modifications are likely to have to take place to get that hand full of Republicans to vote for it.  Once that happens, if it happens, we could find that we have different things to fear in the bill.  That was the "evolving" to which I was referring.  I merely pointed out that I could see that it might not hurt to not have sent bus loads of people to