Capitol Police arrest a woman protesting against the Senate Repuglican’s draft healthcare bill outside Moscow Mitch McConnell’s office on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 22nd. People Demonstrators with disabilities, including many in wheelchairs, jammed the hall outside Moscow Mitch’s office until removed by police. Capitol Police arrested 43 people. The bill, written largely in secret, includes big reductions to Medicaid, defunds Planned Parenthood, eliminates the Obamacare mandate requiring individuals buy insurance, and slashes taxes on the wealthy. The details of the bill had been tightly held by Repuglican leaders as Moscow Mitch wrote legislation that aims to appeal to his most conservative members and the moderates in his 52 member conference. |
