[Whitfield:] It's been a week of emotional Town Halls with a lot of passionate pleas to save Affordable Healthcare. CNN's Boris Sanchez has a firsthand look at the fiery meetings across the country.
[Rep. Gus Bilirakis,  Florida:] They do. Yes, they do.
[Boris Sanchez, Cnn Correspondent:] Tension is running high and emotions boiling over.
[Bilirakis:] My party had virtually no input. No input. Well, OK. So, that's OK. That's OK.
[Sanchez:] The crowd at the Town Hall in New Port Richey, Florida not holding back, pushing hard against indications from Republicans that a repeal of the Affordable Care Act is looming without a unified plan for a replacement from the
[Gop. Unidentified Female:] What's your plan? What's your plan?
[Sanchez:] Town Halls like this one have been organized across the country by Republican lawmakers to better communicate their positions on health care to constituents. But in the past week, protesters have swarmed to these venues, giving lawmakers in both chambers of Congress an earful.
[Unidentified Male:] Do your job. Do your job. Do your job.
[Sanchez:] On Saturday, Representative Gus Bilirakis from Florida's 12th District faced them, too. Some shared deeply personal stories.
[Unidentified Male:] My daughter has a genetic disease called Gitelman syndrome. Now before the ACA, we spent thousands of dollars. We spent tons of time, because she had a preexisting condition, and nobody would touch her. We talked they were talking at one point $10,000 for one year's worth of insurance, OK. So now she has the ACA, since 2009 and she is now able to get the medication she needs to save her life.
[Sanchez:] Others were more forceful.
[Unidentified Female:] Do not get rid of the ACA. You will have so many big problems. It's not funny.
[Sanchez:] A handful of Donald Trump supporters also got to voice their concerns.
[Unidentified Male:] Yes, yes, yes, yes.
[Unidentified Female:] Ladies and gentlemen
[Unidentified Male:] So you need to find out the facts before you start complaining.
[Bill Akins, Pasco County Republican Executive Committee:] Here's the problem I have with the Affordable Healthcare Act. Number one, there is a provision in there that anyone over the age of 74 has to go before what is effectively a death panel. Yes, they do. Yes, they do. It's in there, folks. You're wrong.
[Unidentified Female:] I am 77 years old, and I think it's unconscionable for this politician to tell me that at 74 I will be facing death penalties. That's wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. I have
[Akins:] You misunderstood me. I'm on your side.
[Unidentified Male:] They're angry with this particular plan, not because of the plan itself, but because who is proposing the plan.
[Sanchez:] Representative Bilirakis who was reelected in a landslide last year assured constituents that he planned to take their stories back to Washington. The congressman has voted to defund the ACA in the past. A spokesman says he considers it his duty to take input from all of his constituents, though, not all of them believe that he's going to actually change his stance.
[Dr. Peter Riquetti, Physician:] I think hearing personal anecdotes is something that plays well on news bites and sounds like you are invested in the community, but I think in reality it's a show.
[Sanchez:] As for the increased interest and public outcries at Town Halls, one Democratic activist says that we should expect more.
[Ivana Sheppard, Local Activist:] So I don't see that passion and that anxiety and that fear dissipating unless we see some real change.
[Sanchez:] Boris Sanchez, CNN, Newport Richey, Florida.
[Whitfield:] And these Town Halls are ongoing. They continue to happen this afternoon all the way from California to Rhode Island. We'll monitor and bring you any headlines at what happens. We'll be right back.