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Michael Bennet blasts Republican health-care efforts in Greeley town hall, is hopeful for bipartisan answer

Michael Bennet has a town hall Tuesday night in Sterling, as well

Michael Bennet
Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post
U.S. Senator Michael Bennet participates in a televised debate in the Anschutz Hamilton Hall at the History Colorado Center on Oct. 11, 2016 in Denver.
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GREELEY — U.S. Sen. on Monday said of the Affordable Care Act than what Republicans have put forth in the past few months, and the Colorado Democrat expressed hope that a recently announced to repair the individual marketplace will be met with success.

“It’s crazy to me that they wrote a bill like that,” Bennet said . “Can you imagine how hard it would be to say you’re going to repeal ACA for eight years, then you find yourself on the floor of the Senate and you can’t repeal it?”

Bennet toured Greeley on Monday, visiting the Greeley-Evans School District 6 Central Kitchen, Centennial Elementary School, a Weld County hemp farm and The Greeley Tribune before hosting the town hall. Bennet took a variety of questions from a sympathetic audience of about 150 people, but health care was a recurring theme — .

The answer to health care going forward, Bennet said, .

Bennet is scheduled to have another town hall from 5 to 6 p.m. Tuesday at Northeastern Junior College in Sterling.

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