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06-25-2017, 01:44 PM
People are mad at Twitter for promoting the Obamacare repeal hashtag #HellerVoteYes
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Nevada Sen. Dean Heller became the first Republican on Friday to say he wouldn't vote (http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/23/politics/dean-heller-health-care/index.html) for the Senate's bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act because of its cuts to healthcare benefits for low-income Americans.*
Naturally, a conservative, pro-Trump interest group is lobbying the senator to change his mind about the GOP effort to replace Obamacare. One of them promoted a trending hashtag on Twitter: "HellerVoteYes."*
Well, since the Republicans' bill would eliminate most health services provided to the poor through Medicaid and raise costs (http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/06/22/533942041/who-wins-who-loses-with-senate-health-care-bill) for millions of Americans, people quickly seized on the hashtag to lobby Heller in the other direction—and criticize Twitter for promoting the pro-repeal hashtag in the first place.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/06/24/hellervoteyes-obamacare-repeal-senate-healthcare-twitter/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Nevada Sen. Dean Heller became the first Republican on Friday to say he wouldn't vote (http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/23/politics/dean-heller-health-care/index.html) for the Senate's bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act because of its cuts to healthcare benefits for low-income Americans.*
Naturally, a conservative, pro-Trump interest group is lobbying the senator to change his mind about the GOP effort to replace Obamacare. One of them promoted a trending hashtag on Twitter: "HellerVoteYes."*
Well, since the Republicans' bill would eliminate most health services provided to the poor through Medicaid and raise costs (http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/06/22/533942041/who-wins-who-loses-with-senate-health-care-bill) for millions of Americans, people quickly seized on the hashtag to lobby Heller in the other direction—and criticize Twitter for promoting the pro-repeal hashtag in the first place.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/06/24/hellervoteyes-obamacare-repeal-senate-healthcare-twitter/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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