Protesters stage overnight sit-in at Sen. Gardners office over health care bill [View all]
Source: KDVR FOX 31
A group of protesters spent the night in the lobby of Sen. Cory Gardner’s office in Denver on Tuesday.
Disability advocates from a group called ADAPT organized a protest beginning at 9 a.m. Tuesday outside the senator’s office.
They want Gardner to vote against the proposed federal health care bill, saying they believe it will cut Medicaid benefits to individuals who need them to survive independently.
“They depend on these services to be able to live in the community independently, and have jobs and be productive members of society, go to school. Families do all the things that we get to do and we don’t have to fight like this,” Hope Morris said.
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