Elizabeth Deutsch & Mari Cordes: Patients will pay

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Elizabeth Deutsch, RN, who has been a nurse in critical care in Rhode Island and Vermont for more than two decades, and Mari Cordes, RN, who has been a nurse for nearly 30 years in Vermont.
Republicans in Congress have tried time and again to repeal the Affordable Care Act and dismantle Medicaid. And time and again, Vermont families have made it clear that they want more access to affordable care — not less.
But Republicans clearly didn’t ge