WASHINGTON — Nancy Solomon came from Greenbelt, Maryland, for the Women’s March on Washington Saturday in part because she’s worried about a potential Obamacare repeal.
Sitting along Pennsylvania Avenue as marchers walked toward the White House, Soloman told TPM that she lost her full-time job when the economy crashed in 2009. She’s struggled to fine full-time work since then, making it hard for her to find affordable health insurance. Solomon, a single mother, has been working part-time and freelancing since then.
Under Obamacare, she was able to afford a plan through the Maryland exchange with a federal subsidy.
“I’ve really benefited from the Affordable Care Act,” Soloman told TPM. “It made it possible for me to have very good coverage.”
With Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress pushing to repeal the health care law, Solomon is concerned she and many others may no longer be able to find affordable health insurance.
“I’m really worried for the country that we’re going to lose affordable care,” she told TPM.
Solomon said that attending the march on Saturday was a “wonderful” experience.
“I’ve come to marches on and off all my life, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen something as huge as this. It’s just really wonderful to see so many people,” she said.
She should be worried. The GOP kills.
I was at the March in Seattle today and many women are ‘scared’. They (rightfully IMHO) that this administration is so petty and vindicative that they will cancel anything that has to do with women. We were watching the feed as we marched today and I was horrified by how many negative jerks were ‘on’. Early on was the ‘fact’ that these btchy women had asked PROLIFERS not to come. They did do that because they didn’t want the message hijacked by twerps that were trying to make the message ‘smalled’. As the day went on they became flat out misogynistic. ‘There are bathrooms to clean’…etc. etc. Another ‘guy’ told me that he was surrounded by women and it took ‘guts’ to vote for Trump to stop all the whiny women that just had to ‘blame’ someone for their failures. When I suggested that he might be trying to shut down women’s voices with beliefs like that and he again told me how ‘brave’ he was.
It is often bothersome to listen to men with little dicks make comments, especially when they should have been at the recruitment centers signing up to get back into Iraq and take that left behind oil.
In Denver, lots and lots of supportive men. No jerks in sight.
Slow news day, TPM?