.@SenBobCorker met with a couple protesters outside Tom Price’s listening tour in Chattanooga just now. pic.twitter.com/ksUxPgnypz
— Young Pope Jett (@LetsJett) July 6, 2017
After U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price’s news conference Thursday morning, Sen. Bob Corker greeted a faint breeze of a protest.
Standing in front of the Council for Alcohol & Drug Abuse Services on Spears Avenue, Corker spotted four pro-Obamacare signs – and two people. Anna Grabowski, 63, asked why congressmen didn’t draft a single-payer health care reform plan. Corker didn’t bite.
But Eric Reese, 37, told the senator that his conservative colleagues in Washington were going to put together a plan that is simply too harsh for the poor and the deathly ill. To that, Corker offered a rebuttal.
“There is no attempt to do away with the pre-existing condition issue (in place under the Affordable Care Act),” he said. “There is an attempt right now to build up the subsidy level so that people who are lower income can actually purchase health care.”