About 13,000 people marched or rallied on October 18 in the Pioneer Valley, Brattleboro and Keene. The protests were against Trump's policies. Here are the crowd size estimates for each city and town, based on first-hand reporting at the Brattleboro march, interviews with reputable people who were at the other protests, and other sources:

3,500 Brattleboro

3,000 Greenfield

3,000 Northampton

1,500 Amherst

900 Westfield, Massachusetts

400 Keene

300 Orange, Massachusetts

The organizers have a web site at www.NoKings.org.

As of 2023, about 68,000 people died every year in the USA because they did not have health insurance.

source:

www.sanders.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/Fact-Sheet_Medicare-for-All-20...

As of 2023, about 26 million citizens and other legal residents of the USA did not have health insurance.

Trump signed into law in July 2025 a so-called "budget reconciliation package" (he called it the "Big Beautiful Bill”) that will, according to KFF (link below), "make significant changes to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) market places.... Relative to estimates of insurance coverage prior to the law being enacted, the law will increase the number of people without health insurance in 2034 by 10 million, because of changes to Medicaid (7.5 million), the ACA Marketplaces (2.1 million), and other policies and interactions among different provisions (0.4 million)."

source:

www.kff.org/medicaid/how-will-the-2025-reconciliation-law-affect-the-uni...

The average life expectancy in Japan, which has universal health care, is 84. In the USA it's 78.

According to an October 24, 2025 mass email from the Vermont-based Public Assets Institute, "If healthcare tax credits expire, Vermonters face the biggest losses in the U.S. One of the main issues at stake in the federal government shutdown is the expiration of enhanced healthcare premium tax credits, which help people buy insurance through the state marketplace."