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Sanders to Headline 'Don't Take Our Health Care' Bus Tour

By John Bowden, The Hill

24 June 17

en. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will headline a MoveOn.org bus tour this weekend urging senators to oppose the Senate GOP healthcare plan, the progressive organization announced Thursday.

Sanders will headline three rallies in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia over the weekend as he joins Democratic efforts to stop the push to repeal and replace ObamaCare.

MoveOn said it will target three GOP senators — Pat Toomey (Pa.), Rob Portman (Ohio) and Shelley Moore Capito (W.Va.) — lobbying efforts against the Senate bill.

Sanders will attend one rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday and two on Sunday — one in West Virginia and one in Ohio. The bus tour is themed "Don't Take Our Health Care," according to CNN.

Senate Republicans unveiled a draft version of their healthcare plan earlier Thursday. The bill would make significant cuts to Medicaid and defund Planned Parenthood for a year.

In a press release announcing the bus tour, MoveOn blasts the Senate bill as a massive transfer of wealth to the rich.

"The Senate’s health care legislation is an especially cruel and destructive transfer of wealth to the wealthiest American’s at the expense of kids, low-income Americans, the elderly, those with disabilities, and the nearly 23 million Americans who could lose their coverage as a result of health care repeal efforts," the statement reads.

"According to reports, the Senate legislation—which was devised in secret without a single public hearing, chance for markup, or public input—could eliminate coverage for more than 23 million Americans, raise costs, reduce coverage, and end Medicaid as we know it."

The progressive group's statement mirrors one made by Sanders earlier in the day in response to the release of the Senate's bill.

“The Republican plan is even worse than expected and by far the most harmful piece of legislation I have seen in my lifetime. This bill has nothing to do with health care. It has everything to do with an enormous transfer of wealth from working people to the richest Americans,” Sanders said Thursday.

“Our job now is to rally millions of Americans against this disastrous bill to make sure that it does not pass the Senate. Instead of throwing tens of millions of Americans off of health insurance, we must guarantee health care as a right to every American.”