Parents of sick kids try to remind Congress what the health-care debate should be about

[sheshe2]

“Is she okay?” the startled legislative staffer asked, eyes shifting to the adults around him as the trach tube protruding from the neck of a 2-year-old gurgled.

In the air-conditioned, marble halls of Congress, you often hear the click of heels as staffers rush from room to room or the booming voices of our nation’s representatives making a pitch for some legislation.

You do not hear the gurgle of a trach tube.

Until this week.

“Let me just suction,” one mom said as a blue-suited staffer’s eyes widened at the strange sounds coming from the toddler in pigtails.

“We could see it in their eyes, most of them have never seen a child with a trach tube,” said Elena Hung, one of the moms who on Tuesday walked the halls pushing her child’s giant medical rig, showing Capitol Hill folks the actual kids their wheeling, dealing, backroom bargaining and political gamesmanship will affect in the repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act.

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These kids smiled, giggled and then their tubes gurgled to show what’s at stake here.

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These are the children like so many others that are going to first bankrupt their families and then just fade away to darkness.

THE HEARTLESS GOP CELEBRATED THEIR IMPENDING DEATHS OVER A KEG OF BEER.




A party that laughs uproariously over Americans dying so they can have another tax cut. Soulless bastards.

[mcar]

1. I fear for these children, she

Brave parents to take on these good "pro-lifers."

[sheshe2]

2. People should inundate the Senate with these photos.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. Put up posters in their Congressional Districts. . . . nt

[Cha]

3. Mahalo for Highlighing this atrocity by the

Fascistrumps, she.

If his damn brainwashed Fakefox soaked fan club ever wakes up.. they'll see it affects their kids, too.. and their damn selves.

[sheshe2]

4. Oh they will see how all this affects there families, soon.

Very soon, Cha.

[bagelsforbreakfast]

5. Good Luck - Republicans believe if you are sick just die n/m

[sheshe2]

6. Yes. That is the point I was making.