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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsShe voted for Trump. Now she fears losing the Obamacare plan that saved her life.
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-obamacare-trump-voter-20170224-story.htmlKathy Watson was anxious about her health coverage even before she woke up gasping for breath last month and drove herself to the emergency room with a flare-up in her heart condition.
After struggling for years without insurance, the 55-year-old former small-business owner who has battled diabetes, high blood pressure and two cancers credits Obamacare with saving her life.
Watson also voted for Donald Trump, believing the businessman would bring change. She dismissed his campaign pledges to scrap the Affordable Care Act as bluster.
Now, as she watches the new president push to kill the law that provided her with a critical lifeline, Watson finds herself among many Trump supporters who must reconcile their votes with worries about the future of their healthcare.
toddwv
(2,830 posts)but what a dumbass.
Here's hoping she gets the care that she needs.
Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)Your vote has a consequence. Sorry you missed thst
liquid diamond
(1,917 posts)Zorro
(15,860 posts)liquid diamond
(1,917 posts)I'm tired of these stupid racist whites fucking up other people's lives.
marybourg
(12,693 posts)Our democracy may never be the same again.
And, oh yea, he said he was going to "change" your insurance into no insurance. But you voted for him anyway.
kimbutgar
(21,492 posts)Vinca
(50,406 posts)Jim Beard
(2,535 posts)LonePirate
(13,496 posts)TBA
(825 posts)Generic Other
(28,979 posts)StarryNite
(9,555 posts)This song so often comes to mind for me! She knew he was a snake, what the hell did she think was going to happen???
liberalmuse
(18,672 posts)for people who are being targeted by the racists who voted for Trump. I swear to God people like this have not been paying attention to what Republicans have been doing since the 80's and now they're surprised? They could care less when the Republicans screw others, but when its them, they sob the loudest.
And Donald Trump has been a colossal asshole since the sperm hit the egg. There was no mystery about who he is and what depths he'll stoop to.
Edit: biology
bunnies
(15,859 posts)She voted for this. Now it's "poor me, I got what I voted for".
Cry me a fucking river. We ALL got what YOU voted for.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)COLGATE4
(14,739 posts)that she'll vote for the Rethugs again. You can't fix stupid.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)nadine_mn
(3,702 posts)in and don't lose anything - whereas everyone else gets screwed over.
Trump never backed away from his claim that "obamacare was a disaster" so why is she surprised?
orwell
(7,789 posts)Initech
(100,384 posts)GaYellowDawg
(4,458 posts)I'll bet she really regrets she has but one life to give for Republican lies.
LisaL
(45,037 posts)change she is gonna get.
dalton99a
(82,121 posts)LenaBaby61
(6,987 posts)And other people too with that selfish and ignorant vote of hers.
So NO I feel NO pity for her. She surely didn't feel any for me or for those of us who might lose their health care under THEIR Illegitimate president
She and those like her really need to go have several seats.
flying-skeleton
(705 posts)Tell her to go to hell.
Only now that her life in in danger, she is afraid. She voted for the ShitGibbon so obviously she likes a ton of other stuff about the ShitGibbon. So again, tell her to F off.
Ilsa
(61,731 posts)She shouldn't be surprised that if congress got rid of her health insurance, 45 would sign it.
Kimchijeon
(1,606 posts)But I'm sure they will keep voting against their own best interests, ultimately.
I'm afraid the brainwashing of hate and fear against democrats has gone on for too long. I wish people would just wake up.
krispos42
(49,445 posts)My only sympathy is for your offspring that must live with the consequences of your choice.
Unless they also voted for ^^^^^. Then zero cares given.
Sorry. Hope your sacrifice was worth it.
sheshe2
(84,485 posts)Horse with no Name
(33,960 posts)Darwin Award winner here....
Retrograde
(10,235 posts)Trump couldn't do much without a GOP majority in the House and Senate to rubberstamp his "ideas". If she voted Republican for those - well, tough. I and the millions more who voted Democratic are living with the effects of her shortsightedness/lack of analysis/blinkered existence/stupidity.
LenaBaby61
(6,987 posts)But I don't feel sorry for people like her one bit.
I ONLY feel for those who voted against him that will be losing their health care and in some cases unfortunately their LIVES.
lpbk2713
(42,848 posts)But she willingly put her own head in the noose.
pansypoo53219
(21,093 posts)BigBoss
(23 posts)None! She voted for it now she can suffer the consequences. Fuck her and people like her.
spanone
(136,221 posts)really? after republicans voted how many goddamn times to repeal it? really?
putitinD
(1,551 posts)Charles Bukowski
(1,132 posts)affected" - this lady.
You thought wrong, asshole.
Luciferous
(6,098 posts)Tikki
(14,586 posts)Actually of all the words we can use to describe these people...calling them GULLIBLE would
make them squirm the most.
The word GULLIBLE in itself shows more than a lack of intelligence..it shows a LACK OF POWER on their part.
Something they thought they had by voting for trump.
Tikki
aquamarina
(1,865 posts)Sympathy or pity for this woman. I consider my brother to be a rabid conservative but even he was smart enough not to vote for 45. He would never vote for a democrat so he simply left it blank. As much as I abhor his politics I respect him for being to admit Trump would be a horrible president.
renate
(13,776 posts)" I do not wish anyone ill but at some point I grow weary of constantly bailing out the failed policies of the GOP and conservatives only to then be blamed for them later." (by a commenter named wnovin)
We liberals keep on trying to do right by everyone, including right-wingers, and they almost always end up resenting us for it. It does get a little old, caring about people who look down on us and call us bleeding hearts. Caring about others is what makes us liberals, so I'm going to keep on doing it, but... yeah. It's getting old.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)procon
(15,805 posts)"Take me in, tender woman
Take me in, for heaven's sake
Take me in, tender woman," sighed the snake
"I saved you," cried the woman
"And you've bitten me, but why?
You know your bite is poisonous and now I'm going to die"
"Oh shut up, silly woman," said the reptile with a grin
"You knew damn well I was a snake before you took me in
"Take me in, tender woman
Take me in, for heaven's sake
Take me in, tender woman," sighed the snake
lester94111
(81 posts)Is she dead yet?
benld74
(9,930 posts)Nothing else can assist from my end
hatrack
(59,685 posts)Actually, no, fresh out of Give-A-Fuck for the willfully stupid - like this woman.
If she wants to kill herself, that's her problem.
If she wants to make sure that her actions kill others at the same time, then fuck her. Ignorant fucking goober.
bagelsforbreakfast
(1,427 posts)NNadir
(33,642 posts)...looking for changes like an increase in compassion.
Unlike the majority of the people she hurt with her racist attitude, she deserves what she's going to get.
malaise
(270,658 posts)Fools die for want of wisdom
StarryNite
(9,555 posts)meadowlander
(4,425 posts)Linc13
(59 posts)of how many fucks I don't give for her and people like her.
demosincebirth
(12,592 posts)yardwork
(62,036 posts)demosincebirth
(12,592 posts)BannonsLiver
(16,676 posts)Pass some of that shit over here.
tblue37
(65,778 posts)tblue37
(65,778 posts)Watson, a proud, salty woman who was uninsurable a few years ago, isnt ready to renounce Trump.
Zambero
(9,006 posts)In this instance, changing from alive to dead.
Hokie
(4,288 posts)She dismissed his campaign pledges to scrap the Affordable Care Act as bluster.
Not to mention he is misogynist pig. How stupid can one person be?
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)They didn't think Dump would REALLY cut off their healthcare. He was just--they dunno--rallying the crowd. Or something.
What the HELL did they think he meant? I hate these people.
Solly Mack
(90,895 posts)but I see all the people who didn't vote for Trump, who are in the same boat as Ms Watson, and can't help but think the people like Ms Watson, who did vote for Trump - even though he repeatedly said he would repeal the ACA - have possibly killed not just themselves but non-Trump voters as well.
You see, it would be one thing if it was only the lives of the people who voted for Trump - they got exactly what they voted for even if it is a rude awakening now.....but they are also killing the people who didn't vote for Trump.
It wasn't just their lives they were playing with. They played with the lives of other people. Their choice to vote for Trump could kill people who didn't vote for Trump.
So, while I do hate what is happening to those people who voted against their own best interests, I can't help but feel that those same people are also partially responsible for any deaths of the people who didn't vote for Trump and who need the ACA as much as Ms Watson does.
The blame also goes to Trump and the GOP, as well as Trump voters.
Ms Watson, your vote didn't just possibly kill you - it could potentially kill many others.
Why didn't you consider that?
In the article, Ms Watson speaks in terms of her not being someone who wants something for nothing, as if to separate herself from others in need by using words to suggest some people are freeloaders (something for nothing), and that is she is different (therefore more deserving). Even now, with everything she now understands, she still thinks in those terms.
Demonaut
(8,973 posts)Tatiana
(14,167 posts)Danascot
(4,721 posts)I'm reminded of the fable of the frog and the scorpion.
BannonsLiver
(16,676 posts)akbacchus_BC
(5,704 posts)he was an asshole!
ecstatic
(32,927 posts)I took time to read the entire article and now I'm shaking my head in disbelief at how someone her age with such a long list of preexisting conditions could vote for Trump. At this point, I can't feel any empathy for someone that stupid (hateful?). Sorry, I can't. I'm done.