2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumDarrell Issa's Traveling Obamacare Hearings Exclude ACA Supporters
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In his traveling road show of hearings on the Affordable Care Act rollout, Darrell Issa has hand-picked the people testifying, and has excluded those who want to speak in favor of the ACA. In Gaston County, North Carolina, two women who requested to speak at the hearings told a local TV station that that they had written to Issa, saying they wanted to testify, but neither received a reply from his office.
The hearing got off to a contentious start on Friday, as people complained that they won't get a chance to be heard. They were also told they would be removed from the meeting if they spoke out of turn.
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But Ward says her message is important. The ACA offers her insurance she can afford for the first time in years.
"My president has said I hear you, I'm going to help you and frankly the way I see it is that other people are getting in the way," she says.
Dana Wilson is another Charlotte resident who wants to speak, but has not gotten a response to her request. As a teenager, she was diagnosed with MS.
"No one would insure me at all," Wilson says.
But the ACA will finally change that.
"I think if it's a true hearing than all sides should be heard," she says, "and they don't want to hear us."
Both women said that they feared "that all the negativity surrounding the ACA could somehow result in a repeal of the law."
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Cleita
(75,480 posts)Cheat as much as you can get away with to insure you will get the results you want.
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)Cleita
(75,480 posts)I'll bet there's bribery and maybe blackmail behind all those McCarthyesque investigations and hearings.
packman
(16,296 posts)Looks like the carny show has its own freaks inside
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