Dear Mr. President: a message from a cancer survivor

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"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...

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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

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