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TexasTowelie

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Fri Feb 24, 2017, 09:43 AM Feb 2017

Town hall crowd airs concerns for Ron Johnson [View all]

GREEN BAY - As a cancer survivor, Robert Purvis of Coleman has strong feeling about health care system that he wants to share with U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson.

"There is profit being taken at every step of our health care delivery system," Purvis said at a town hall in Green Bay Thursday. He called on the senator to support a single-payer-style system, saying, "We are making people rich with the dollars that we are forced to spend for our health care."

Dozens of Johnson's constituents paraded to microphones in the library of the Brown County Central Library's auditorium Thursday, hoping their concerns will be heard in Washington.

Speakers came from as far as an hour away to pose questions about topics including immigration, affordable care, climate change and President Donald Trump.

Read more: http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/news/2017/02/23/town-hall-crowd-airs-concerns-ron-johnson/98273116/

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