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Senate health care bill must be defeated

Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, shows off his poster to explain what he thinks of the health care bill unveiled by his Republican colleagues.
Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, shows off his poster to explain what he thinks of the health care bill unveiled by his Republican colleagues. MICHAEL REYNOLDS EFE

The Republican health care bill is bad medicine. People will die. The Republicans have declared war on women and children, the blind and disabled, and the poor and the elderly. How deplorable to attack the poor and the powerless!

Sen. Mitch McConnell’s bill is a death march to disaster and nothing more than a big tax grab for the super rich on the backs of the poor. Opposing this bill is a matter of life or death!

Joseph Carr, Fresno

This story was originally published June 25, 2017 at 2:14 PM with the headline "Senate health care bill must be defeated."

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