To The Members Of Congress Who Voted To Deny Health Care For My Grandkids

All of the members of the House of Representatives who voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare, and pass the replacement bill are cowards. They rushed this bill through the House in response to bullying from President Trump, the Freedom Caucus, and Speaker Ryan, many without even reading it. They did this not because most of them believed in their hearts it was a good bill but because they put politics before people. Because some of those people who will be hurt by this bill are my grandkids, I am “mad as hell and I won’t take it anymore.” I have a grandchild born with cystic fibrosis, which would definitely be a pre-existing condition. And I have grandkids on the autism spectrum, another pre-existing condition. Their mothers had healthy pregnancies, and yet these precious children were born that way. I remember very well what insurance companies could do under the name of pre-existing conditions. Like my daughters’ families, neither my husband nor I worked for companies that provided insurance benefits. When we were in our 40s and healthy, we were forced to apply for a new individual insurance plan because our old one was discontinued. As a condition of getting this insurance, we had to agree to exclude coverage for our pre-existing conditions. This meant that because I took a thyroid replacement hormone and had once taken a medication for break-through bleeding, I would have no coverage for anything related to my thyroi...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news