Illustrator Sums Up The Injustice Of AHCA In One Heartbreaking Drawing

House Republicans passed legislation to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act on Thursday, slashing health care coverage for millions, capping Medicaid expansions, and potentially allowing for discrimination against individuals with pre-existing conditions ― some of which essentially amount to being a woman.  An amendment added to the Affordable Health Care Act could allow insurance companies to charge higher premiums for citizens who have experienced postpartum depression, pregnancy, a C-section, domestic violence or rape. On the same day, the House also voted to defund Planned Parenthood, stripping approximately 390,000 low-income women of access to birth control and preventive health care. It’s difficult to know what to say when lawmakers are knocking back beers while millions of poor and sick Americans contemplate their mere survival. Instead, illustrator and writer Courtney Privett posted her response to the “cruel and deadly” bill in the form of a drawing.  The illustration features a woman holding a protest sign reading, “I am a human being.” Various medical conditions including anxiety, cancer, HIV and sexual assault survivor are scrawled across her body and face. An elephant’s trunk pops into the frame, along with a speech bubble reading: “Human being? All I see is a pre-existing condition!”  Beneath the image, Privett wrote a response to ...
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