"Dear President Trump … Obamacare is keeping me alive and can cure my stage 4 cancer."
For this cancer survivor, the Affordable Care Act is a matter of life and death...
For this cancer survivor, the Affordable Care Act is a matter of life and death...
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00:00Dear President Trump, I know I don't look so good. I've been undergoing chemotherapy since May and
00:07It takes a lot out of you
00:10but the good news is that
00:12Obamacare is
00:14Keeping me alive and can cure my stage 4 cancer
00:30Before
00:35The Affordable Care Act I used to have a plan that was junk insurance and
00:40Thankfully, I never really needed to test it because those plans would have limits on coverage
00:46So if I still had that plan
00:49I would be bankrupt or dead today because it costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to save my life
01:00I
01:15Obamacare is a disaster. We want to terminate it
01:17We want to get great health care and that's what we're doing great health care
01:22Well the day after my first chemotherapy appointment, I'm at my house trying to figure out what?
01:29What's going to start breaking? How terrible is this going to be since I'd never been through it before
01:35You know, I'm on I'm on the couch figuring out am I dying and that was the day the day after
01:42was when
01:44Republicans in the US House voted to overturn the Affordable Care Act, which was keeping me alive
01:52so not only had did I have to deal with all the
01:57Medical issues I was going through I had to deal with the
02:00Unending stress and anxiety of wondering am I even going to be able to pay for it?
02:27I
02:38Am very concerned and I think Americans should be very concerned and
02:42Paying attention to this judge and her record and pay attention to your senators and how they vote
02:57I
02:58Everybody likes their health care plan until they have to really use it because
03:03You know your health care plan seems fine until something happens
03:08And then you realize you will be inundated with mountains of bills even if you have so-called good insurance
03:14So I think people have a level of faith in their insurance company that they really shouldn't and I hope that this doesn't
03:22Happen to other people, but if they are ever in a serious situation
03:26They will learn how broken our health care system is
03:53We
03:56Don't even know what the long-term effects are that
03:59These long haulers people that have an infection that never really goes away
04:05They could be having long-term after-effects for the rest of their life
04:09And if we go back to the time when insurance companies can pick and choose who they cover
04:16This is a pre-existing condition and why would any insurance company cover somebody who has or ever had Kovat 19?
04:33I moved to Colorado and I could do that. I'm self-employed and I don't have kids
04:39It's so so I'm more mobile than the average person
04:42But nobody should have to do that
04:44You shouldn't have to move across the country just to be able to get insurance. You shouldn't have to
04:51Marry somebody just to be able to be on their health care plan
04:54You shouldn't have to leave our country just to be able to get health coverage