Cancer survivor who once opposed federal health law challenges Ryan on its repeal

Any conversation about Health Care should begin with the Federal Budget..... 

see the problem? 

Building American Empire is costly! 

Notice the Industrialized Nations that provide UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE? 

Americans should be embarrassed! 

Cancer survivor who once opposed

federal health law challenges Ryan on

its repeal

By Amy Goldstein

January 14 at 4:28 PM (2017)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/01/14/cancer-survivor-who-challenged-ryan-the-aca-saved-his-life/

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“Just like you, I was a Republican,” Jeff Jeans began. Standing on the stage, the

Wisconsin congressman broke into a grin as Jeans said he had volunteered in two

Republican presidential campaigns and opposed the Affordable Care Act so much that

he'd told his wife he would close their business before complying with the health-care

law.

 

But that, he said, was before he was diagnosed with a “very curable cancer” and told that,

if left untreated, he had perhaps six weeks to live. Only because of an early Affordable

Care Act program that offered coverage to people with preexisting medical problems,

Jeans said, “I am standing here today alive.”

 

“Being both a small-business person and someone with preexisting conditions, I rely on

the Affordable Care Act to be able to purchase my own insurance,” Jeans said. “Why

would you repeal the Affordable Care Act without a replacement?”

 

Ryan went for the human touch. “First, I am glad you are standing here,” he replied. “I

mean really. Seriously. Hey. No really.”

 

But Jeans interrupted him: “I want to thank President Obama from the bottom of my

heart, because I would be dead if it weren't for him.”

 

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