S.F. rally to save Obamacare draws Joan Baez, political leaders

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Source: San Francisco Chronicle

Almost 2,000 people, including such notables as recent Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Joan Baez, rallied Sunday afternoon in Civic Center Plaza behind the benefits of the Affordable Care Act. The demonstration was among several coordinated nationwide, from Los Angeles to Detroit, to fend off a Republican-led dismantling of the 2010 law, one of outgoing President Obama’s signature achievements.

On Friday, a week before Trump takes office, Congress voted to begin the repeal process. While the legislation has added millions of Americans to the health care rolls, critics have decried its costs.

Headlining Sunday’s show of speakers, House minority leader Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, panned her Republican counterparts for acting to take away people’s health insurance.

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1. Good Show

I couldn't make it to the one in Albuquerque because of bad bad hip pain.

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2. K&R

Yup!

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3. My daughter called from the rally so I could hear Baez singing "Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me

Around" since I couldn't make it today. My daughter was there with many of the Clinton volunteers with whom she worked so hard to prevent this unmitigated disaster. So, an uplifting yet sad, sad day.