March 24, 2012

Thirty sites across the state of Wisconsin held ‘house parties’ Monday, March 19th to celebrate the two-year anniversary since the passage of President Obama’s Affordable Care Act. Citizens gathered to hear Democrat Congresswoman Gwen Moore via teleconference give updates about the act’s future as well as its present benefits. The congresswoman also took questions from the audience and stayed overtime addressing concerns and comments about the nation’s current healthcare system and the approach Wisconsin’s leaders are taking.

Waiting for the program to begin at the 1st Unitarian Society on Milwaukee’s eastside, Tom Niebler, a citizen who, himself, has healthcare, expressed his concerns about the current system, “Every other developed, industrialized nation has healthcare as a right – people are entitled to it. There are problems all over this country about people being denied healthcare and a lot of people in authority just say, ‘so what, too bad, who cares – go off somewhere and die’, it’s terrible!”