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still_one

(91,962 posts)
Sun Jan 31, 2016, 10:08 AM Jan 2016

An Iowa Voter Forced Ted Cruz To Confront The Human Toll Of Repealing Obamacare

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Republicans have spent nearly six years promising to repeal Obamacare and, for most of that time, they have refused to acknowledge what that would mean for the millions who would lose their health insurance.

On Saturday afternoon in Iowa, for at least a few minutes, one Republican couldn't get away with it.

It happened at a Ted Cruz campaign event in Hubbard, a small town smack in the middle of the state. According to reports in The New York Times, The Washington Post and Politico, Cruz fielded a question from Mike Valde, a Democratic voter who had come to the event with a story to tell and a simple question to ask.

The story was about his brother-in-law, a barber named Mark. As Valde told it, Mark was a small business owner who worked so hard that he didn’t even take paid days off. But Mark was unable to afford health insurance until the Affordable Care Act became law. When it did, Mark bought insurance and then, when he started feeling ill, saw a physician -- who promptly diagnosed him with cancer with no hope for recovery. He died last year."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ted-cruz-obamacare-iowa_us_56ad66a1e4b077d4fe8e6396

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here's news for Cruz from a cancer survivor wordpix Jan 2016 #1

wordpix

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1. here's news for Cruz from a cancer survivor
Sun Jan 31, 2016, 10:40 AM
Jan 2016

If it weren't for Obamacare, I would have NO insurance due to my pre-existing condition, diagnosed in the month before the ACA was implemented. My previous private insurer, Care First (one of the Blue X Bue Shield companies) sent me a notice toward the end of Dec 2013, while I was very sick, seeing specialists and being diagnosed, that they would no longer cover me to the end of the contract period (Jan. 31, 2014) "due to the ACA," and the corpos was cutting me off insurance on Dec. 31.

A couple days after receiving this email from Care First, I was diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer and facing a big operation and chemo followup with no insurance.

Luckily I had a Dem Congressman whose office acted in my behalf to get the insurance extended to the end of the contract period . I then got ACA insurance, which saved me both my home and my retirement savings, worth well over $2500.

Cruz is LYING and I have the evidence to prove it. He is despicable. People with stories like mine should continue to confront this lying scumbag. If he ever does an event near me, he'll hear from me.

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