The Republicans Will Vote To Kill Mary-Beth Brooks Today

So I want to know from you, sir, if you will support the provisions of the Affordable Care Act, that protect people like me from being thrown into a lottery system such as a high-risk pool, and not being guaranteed receiving any insurance at all, and protect my children and my husband from going bankrupt to keep me alive. For Mary-Beth Brooks, it was a matter of life and death, as she sat nervously, waiting for her Congressman, New Jersey Republican Rep. Leonard Lance’s, Town Hall to begin. Clutching a stack of red raffle tickets, ‘This is how much everybody cares about me, they gave me their tickets,’ she hoped against hope, one of them would be picked by Lance. She had voted for him, and this was her first Town Hall. A thousand rambunctious constituents packed the Raritan Community College auditorium in Branchburg, New Jersey. Hundreds overflowed into the parking lot and watched on live-stream. Mary-Beth was there to ask him to vote ‘no’ on the GOP repeal and replace of the Affordable Care Act, which would throw her into a high risk pool lottery. Her medications were $9,700 a week and in two years, she would be dead because of the lifetime cap imposed by insurance companies. Lance began, “Let me just say, I don’t think anybody here was paid.” The crowd erupted in applause, brandishing the green ‘thumbs up,’ side of their cards. The rest of the morning was peppered with jeers, boos, ‘do your job,’ and ...
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