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Obamacare ACA Repeal on Wednesday's Access Utah

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  Republicans in Congress are attempting to keep their long-standing promise to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. They say the ACA is a disaster and likely to implode. Democrats warn that millions of people will lose access to affordable health care if the repeal passes. We’re going to talk about it on Access Utah today. What should our health care system look like? Is healthcare a right? Is the ACA a massive deficit-busting entitlement program? If you prefer a more market-based system how would that work? How do we promote a system that reduces costs and expands coverage?

We’d especially love to hear your experience. Where do you get your health care? How’s that part of your life working?

We’ll be talking with Rep. Greg Hughes, R-Draper, Speaker of the Utah House of Representatives; Rep. Jim Dunnigan, R-Taylorsville, House Chairman of the Health Reform Task Force; and Jason Stevenson, Education and Communications Director with the Utah Health Policy Project.

 

Tom Williams worked as a part-time UPR announcer for a few years and joined Utah Public Radio full-time in 1996. He is a proud graduate of Uintah High School in Vernal and Utah State University (B. A. in Liberal Arts and Master of Business Administration.) He grew up in a family that regularly discussed everything from opera to religion to politics. He is interested in just about everything and loves to engage people in conversation, so you could say he has found the perfect job as host “Access Utah.” He and his wife Becky, live in Logan.