Republican members of Congress have made repealing the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare, a top priority.
But a lot of people opposed to the laws repeal or worried about what would take its place are mobilizing to make their views known even in some of the countrys most conservative areas.
On Saturday, many of those Americans converged on Republican Rep. Tom McClintocks town hall meeting in Roseville, California, to pressure him not to repeal Obamacare. A man at the meeting received a standing ovation after saying that his wife would die if Obamacare were repealed, because he cannot afford her medication, KQED public radios Katie Orr reported on Twitter .
Several people standing with \"resist\" signs in @RepMcClintock meeting. @KQEDnews pic.twitter.com/qc7hEbr1sG
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McClintock, who won re-election in 2016 by more than 25 percentage points, left the event under police escort as at least 100 demonstrators jeered him.
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@1KatieOrr @RepMcClintock @KQEDnews I was there - reddest district in CA, about 1K people demonstrating in front of theater pic.twitter.com/FU7acFyABT
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This is how Tom McClintock CA district 4 rep listens to his constituents... #democracy pic.twitter.com/GO0oxRBKOc
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Tea party conservatives opposed to Obamacares enactment packed constituent town halls in the summer of 2009 to lobby lawmakers against the reform law. The activism was credited with making support for the law politically radioactive and helping Republicans take back the House in the 2010 election.
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Now, progressive supporters of the law appear to be mimicking the tea party tactic in attempts to stall the repeal process.
MSNBC s Steve Benen has a thorough rundown of confrontations that have taken place and the steps that some Republican House members have taken to avoid them.
Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Texas) unsuccessfully tried to keep information about an Obamacare constituent meeting private in January, and Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-Va.) simply decided not to show up at two meetings she scheduled last weekend.
The district staff of Rep. Peter Roskam (R-Ill.) re-scheduled a constituent meeting about Obamacare on Wednesday after it became clear one of the constituents had invited a local reporter. Roskams office told HuffPost it does not permit reporters to be present at constituent meetings as a matter of policy.
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