Clip of the Week: Are Voter Access and Health Care Linked?

This week, our Senators played tug of war with American health care. As the White House fights to repeal Obamacare and swap it with a subpar replacement-- the American Health Care Act (AHCA) aka the Better Care Reconcilliation Act (BCRA) aka Obamacare Repeal Reconcilliation Act (ORRA)-- that surely spells doom for those with preexisting conditions, protestors took to telephones to call their representatives to ask them to prevent the dangerous bill from passing, and then took to the streets to make their ire known. The citizens refuse to have their healthcare taken from them lying down.

In this episode of Health Action TV, National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS (NBLCA) leader, C. Virginia Fields, sits down with Juanluis Rodriguez of The Center For HIV Law and Policy to talk about how increased voter restrictions following the gutting of the Voting Rights Act have had an impact on health, especially on AIDS patients, and that health care has always been a driving force for civil rights. With news of Russian hacking and voter suppression impacting the 2016 Presidential Election and leading up to attempts on Obamacare's repeal, it is clear that the paths of health and human rights are very much intertwined.

Health Action TV airs monthly on Sundays at 9pm on MNN1 (TWC 34 & 1995, RCN 82, FiOS 33 or streaming live) or MNN’s HD Community Channel (TWC 1993 or streaming live).

-- AK